title: 1683 in France
text: # 1683 in France
  
  Events from the year 1683 in France.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Louis XIV
  
  ## Births
  
  * 4 February – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, explorer of North America (d. 1765)
  * 28 February – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, scientist (d. 1757)
  * 23 June – Etienne Fourmont, orientalist (d. 1745)
  * 25 September – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (d. 1764)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 10 July – François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
  * 30 July – Maria Theresa of Spain, first wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
  * 6 September – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
  