1712 in France

Events from the year 1712 in France. == Incumbents == Monarch – Louis XIV == Events == March – Cassard expedition sets out 24 July – Battle of Denain == Arts and culture == 12 January – The première of the opera Idoménée by André Campra takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris 27 December – The première of the opera Callirhoé by André Cardinal Destouches takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris == Births == 2 January – Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc, feral child (died 1775) 28 February – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, general (died 1759) 14 March – Charles-Antoine Jombert, bookseller and publisher (died 1784) 27 March – Claude Bourgelat, veterinary surgeon (died 1779) 8 April – Pierre Pouchot, military engineer officer (died 1769) 17 May – Jean-Baptiste Greppo, canon and archaeologist (died 1767) 28 May – Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, economist (died 1759) 21 June – Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen, admiral (died 1790) 25 June – Exupere Joseph Bertin, anatomist (died 1781) 9 July – Charles-Étienne Pesselier, playwright and librettist (died 1763) 15 August – César Gabriel de Choiseul, officer and statesman (died 1785) 24 August – Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier, painter and engraver (died 1784) 15 September – Pierre Simon Fournier, punch-cutter (died 1768) 22 September – François-Joseph-Gaston de Partz de Pressy, cleric (died 1789) 26 September – Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, cardinal (died 1800) 4 November – Charles Louis de Marbeuf, general (died 1786) 7 November – Antoine Choquet de Lindu, architect (died 1790) 20 November – Guillaume Voiriot, portrait painter (died 1799) 24 November – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, priest and educator of the deaf (died 1789) 12 December Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Lorraine-born Austrian general and soldier (died 1780) François-Antoine Devaux, Lorraine-born poet and man of letters (died 1796) Approximate date – Angélique du Coudray, pioneer of modern midwifery (died 1794) == Deaths == 12 January – Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Coriolis de Villeneuve d'Espinouse, aristocrat (born 1655) 12 February – Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, Dauphine of France (born 1685) 18 February – Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Dauphin of France (born 1682) 22 February – Nicolas Catinat, military officer (born 1637) 8 March – Louis, Duke of Brittany (born 1707) 11 April – Richard Simon, priest, Oratorian, biblical critic, orientalist and controversialist (born 1638) 11 June – Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme, military commander (born 1654) 13 July – Isaac de Porthau, Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (born 1617) 9 September – Jean Mauger, medallist (born 1648) 14 September – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer and engineer (born 1625) 5 November – Charles Honoré d'Albert, duc de Luynes, noble (born 1646) === Full date unknown === Jean-Baptiste Forest, landscape painter (born 1636) == See also == == References ==