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| 1701 |
| | | The War of the Spanish Succession breaks out between French and Austrian claimants to the Spanish throne | |
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| 1714 |
| | | Strasbourg and Alsace are ceded to Louis XIV and become part of France | |
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| 1715 |
| | | Louis XIV dies after seventy-two years on the throne | |
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| 1717 |
| | | Scottish entrepreneur John Law establishes the Louisiana Company to develop the Mississippi valley for France | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | The lighter rococo style, beginning in France, becomes an extension of the baroque | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | The postchaise, introduced in France, provides the first chance of reasonably comfortable travel by land | |
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| 1720 |
| | | Shares in John Law's Louisiana Company rise spectacularly and then collapse, in what becomes known as the Mississippi Bubble | |
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| 1721 |
| | | Jean-Antoine Watteau paints the most splendid shop sign in history, for his friend Gersaint | |
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| 1733 |
| | | An alliance between the French and Spanish Bourbons is the first of what become known as the Family Compacts | |
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| 1733 |
| | | Voltaire publishes a series of Philosophical Letters comparing the French unfavourably with England | |
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