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Events from the year 1711 in France.

• Monarch – Louis XIV

• 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 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)

• 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)

• Étienne Baudet, engraver (born 1636)