title: 1687 in France
text: # 1687 in France
  
  Events from the year 1687 in France
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Louis XIV
  
  ## Events
  
  * March – Embassy of Loubère-Céberet to Siam, consisting of a French expeditionary force of 1,361 soldiers, missionaries, envoys and crews aboard five warships.
  * Fort Denonville established
  
  ## Births
  
  * 15 February – Philippe Charles de La Fare, a Marshal of France (d. 1752)
  * 8 May – Jean Henri Desmercières, French-Danish merchant, banker and landowner (d. 1778)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 18 March – François Collignon, engraver, print-seller and publisher (born c.1609)
  * 19 March – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explorer (b. 1643)
  
  ### Full date missing
  
  * Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician (b. 1612)
  