1718 in France

• 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. : New Orleans • 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) ==See also==