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Events from the year 1696 in France
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This Edict stated that for a coat of arms to be valid, it had to be registered with the King of Arms for a fee. Due to this, 110 000 coats of arms were registered by d'Hozier, the King of Arms. [2]
Signed on 29 August 1696 by the French King and the Duchy of Savoy , ended the latter's involvement in the Nine Years' War .
Births
Esprit Antoine Blanchard
Full date missing
Deaths
14 March – Jean Domat , jurisconsult (born 1625)
14 April – Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin , chevalier (born c.1629)
17 April – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné , aristocrat (born 1626)
27 April – Simon Foucher , polemic philosopher (born 1644)
11 May – Jean de La Bruyère , philosopher and moralist (born 1645)
29 June – Michel Lambert , composer (born 1610)
28 July – Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy , statesman and diplomat (born 1625)
21 December – Louise Moillon , painter (born 1610)
Full date missing
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