1718 in France

Events from the year 1718 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Louis XV
 * Regent: Philip II of Orleans

Events

 * January – France declares war on Spain, leading to the 2-year War of the Quadruple Alliance.
 * May 7 – New Orleans is founded.
 * November 18 – Voltaire's first play, Oedipus, premières at the Comédie-Française in Paris. This is his first use of the pseudonym.

Births

 * January 29 – Paul Rabaut, Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
 * October 19 – Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)

Deaths

 * February 18 – Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
 * April 3 – Jacques Ozanam, mathematician (b. 1640)
 * April 27 – Jacques Bernard, theologian (b. 1658)
 * May 22 – Gaspard Abeille, lyric and tragic poet (b. 1648)
 * June 13 – Louis, Count of Armagnac, noble (b. 1641)
 * July 28 – Étienne Baluze, scholar (b. 1630)
 * September 12 – Louise de Maisonblanche, illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France (b. 1676)
 * October 19 – Alphonse Henri, Count of Harcourt, noble (b. 1646)