Events from the year 1711 in France
3 April – Clipperton Island in the Pacific is rediscovered by Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, who claim it for France and map it.
9 August–12 September – Siege of Bouchain (War of the Spanish Succession): the Duke of Marlborough breaks through the French lines.
11 October – 245 people are killed in a crush on the Pont de la Guillotière [fr ] in Lyon , caused when a large crowd returning from a festival on the other side of the Rhône becomes trapped against an obstruction in the middle of the bridge caused by a collision between a carriage and a cart.
23 February – Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières , general (died 1774)
26 April – Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont , writer (died 1780)
22 May – Guillaume du Tillot , politician (died 1774)
7 June – François Jacquier , Franciscan mathematician and physicist (died 1788)
12 June – Louis Legrand , Sulpician priest and theologian (died 1780)
26 July – Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne , architect (died 1778)
29 July – Claude-Adrien Nonnotte , writer (died 1793)
19 August – Gabriel de Solages , soldier and industrialist (died 1799)
2 September – Noël Hallé , painter, draughtsman and printmaker (died 1781)
23 September – Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix d'Ollières , Marshal of France (died 1775)
21 October – Armand-Jérôme Bignon , lawyer (died 1772)
25 December – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville , composer and violinist (died 1772)
Claudine Françoise Mignot
24 January – Jean Bérain the Elder , draughtsman, designer, painter and engraver (born 1640)
27 January – Antoine de Pas de Feuquières , soldier (born 1648)
26 February – Claude Frassen , theologian and philosopher (born 1620)
13 March – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux , poet and critic (born 1636)[ 2]
29 March – Gabriel Gerberon , Jansenist monk (born 1628)
11 April – François Lamy , Benedictine theologian (born 1636)
14 April – Louis, Grand Dauphin , son of Louis XIV (born 1661)
17 April – Louis Carré , mathematician (born 1663)
4 May – Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine (born 1700)
31 August – Jean Le Pelletier , polygraph and alchemist (born 1633)
3 September – Élisabeth Sophie Chéron , painter, musician and poet (born 1648)
14 September – Claude Aveneau , missionary (born 1650)
30 November – Claudine Françoise Mignot , adventuress (born 1624)
Full date missing – Étienne Baudet , engraver (born 1636)
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