Events from the year 1698 in France.
Incumbents Monarch: Louis XIV
Events Today's Place Vendôme is created as the Place des Conquêtes in Paris. 24 October – Iberville and Bienville sail from Brest to the Gulf of Mexico to defend the southern borders of New France; they will eventually found three capitals of Louisiana (New France), as the future American cities: Mobile, Biloxi & New Orleans.
Births 17 July – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759) 6 September – Jean Thurel, French soldier (d. 1807)
Full date unknown Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (d. 1761)
Deaths 10 January – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637) 15 May – Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642) 28 November – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
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