1699 in France

Events from the year 1699 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Louis XIV

Events

 * 20 January: Louis XIV gave the French Academy of Sciences its first rules.
 * 11 June: France, England and the Dutch Republic agree on the terms of the Treaty of London (1700) (Second Partition Treaty) for Spain.
 * The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture holds the first of a series of salons at the Louvre Palace.

Births

 * 26 March: Hubert-François Gravelot, illustrator (d. 1773)
 * 26 June: Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, salonnière (d. 1777)
 * 17 August: Bernard de Jussieu, naturalist (d. 1777)
 * 25 August: Charles Étienne Louis Camus, mathematician and mechanician (d. 1768)
 * 13 October: Jeanne Quinault, actress and playwright (d. 1783)
 * 2 November: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, painter (d. 1779)
 * 25 November: Pierre Subleyras, painter (d. 1749)
 * Undated: Joseph Galien, professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Avignon, meteorologist, physicist and writer on aeronautics (d. 1762 or 1782)

Deaths

 * 20 February: Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, painter (b. 1636)
 * 21 April: Jean Racine, classic dramatist (b. 1639)
 * 26 September: Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, diplomat and minister (b. 1618)
 * 18 November: Pierre Pomet, pharmacist (b. 1658)
 * 30 December: Pierre Robert, composer (b. c. 1618)
 * Undated: Antoine Le Grand, Cartesian philosopher, in England (b. 1629)