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Events from the year 1687 in France
Incumbents
Events
- March – Embassy of Loubère-Céberet to Siam, consisting of a French expeditionary force of 1,361 soldiers, missionaries, envoys and crews aboard five warships.
- Fort Denonville established
Births
- 15 February – Philippe Charles de La Fare, a Marshal of France (d. 1752)
- 8 May – Jean Henri Desmercières, French-Danish merchant, banker and landowner (d. 1778)
Deaths
- 18 March – François Collignon, engraver, print-seller and publisher (born c.1609)
- 19 March – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explorer (b. 1643)
Full date missing
- Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician (b. 1612)
References
- "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- "Philippe Charles de La Fare". roglo.eu. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- "Jean Henri Desmerciéres" (in Danish). Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
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