1681 in France



Events from the year 1681 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIV

Events

 * 15 May – The Canal du Midi is opened officially, as the Canal Royal de Languedoc.
 * 30 September – France annexes the city of Strasbourg, previously a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.
 * The Dragonnades are instituted to intimidate Huguenot families into either leaving France or converting to Catholicism. Collections are made in England for needy French refugees.
 * The Port of Honfleur is remodelled by Abraham Duquesne.

Births

 * 9 April – Nicolas Edelinck, engraver (d. 1767)
 * 11 April – Anne Danican Philidor, musician (d. 1728)
 * 26 May – Antoine-François Botot Dangeville, dancing master, dancer and ballet teacher (d. c.1737)
 * 31 May – Joseph-François Lafitau, Jesuit missionary, ethnologist, and naturalist (d. 1746)
 * 6 October – Charles François de Mondion, architect and military engineer (d. 1733)
 * 19 October – Claude Bouhier de Lantenay, clergyman and the second bishop of Dijon (d. 1755)
 * 7 November – Isaac-Joseph Berruyer, Jesuit historian (d. 1748)

Full date missing

 * Antoine Sartine, French-born financier and Spanish administrator (d. 1744)

Deaths

 * 16 January – Olivier Patru, lawyer and writer (b. 1604)
 * 24 January – Jean Baptiste Gonet, Dominican theologian (b. c.1616)
 * 6 May – Catherine Trianon, fortune teller and accused poisoner in the famous Poison Affair (b. 1627)
 * 23 May – Claude Deschamps, actor and playwright (b. c.1600)
 * 28 June – Marie Angélique de Scorailles, noblewoman (b. 1661)
 * 15 September – Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon, illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his Maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan (b. 1674)
 * 23 September – Pierre Simon Jaillot, sculptor (b. 1631)
 * 27 September – Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre, marshal of France and governor of Lorraine (b. 1599)
 * 26 November – Jean Garnier, Jesuit church historian, patristic scholar and moral theologian (b. 1612)
 * 10 December – Gaspard Marsy, sculptor (b. 1624 or 1625)
 * 16 December – François Vavasseur, Jesuit humanist and controversialist (b. 1605)
 * 19 December – Marguerite Joly, accused poisoner in the Poison Affair, confessed under torture to several murders, sentenced to be burned at the stake (b. 1637)
 * 21 December – Lacuzon, Franc-Comtois leader (b. 1607)

Full date missing

 * Laurent Drelincourt, theologian (b. 1626)
 * Jacques Gaffarel, scholar and astrologer (b. 1601)
 * Louis Phélypeaux, seigneur de La Vrillière, politician (b. 1598)
 * Charles Joseph Tricassin, Capuchin theologian
 * Pierre Guillaume Néel III, Huguenot (b. 1638)
 * December – Charles Cotin, abbé, philosopher and poet (b. 1604)
 * after 1681 – Abraham Ragueneau, painter (b. 1623)