* Louise Émilie de Vautedard ( 1694 – 1719 )-wife of Nicolas Mesnager.

Nicolas Mesnager ( or Le Mesnager or Ménager ) ( 1658 – 1714 ) was a French diplomat.

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* France: Paris is also a very active street art scene with artists such as Space Invader, Zevs, Mosko et Associés, Mesnager, Zoo Project.

* John Armstrong ( 1717 – 1795 ), born in Fermanagh, United States Congressman

He met the influential early neoclassical painter Raphael Mengs ( 1728 – 1779 ), and through Mengs was introduced to the pathbreaking theories of art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ).

Renewed hostilities against the Ottomans in the Austro-Turkish War consolidated his reputation with victories at the battles of Petrovaradin ( 1716 ), and the decisive encounter at Belgrade ( 1717 ).

With the resources thus gained he undertook to enable Philip V to carry out an ambitious foreign policy to undo the Treaty of Utrecht, with the aim of countering the Habsburgs and recovering Spanish possessions in Italy, where he was responsible for unwarranted invasions of Sardinia ( November 1717, strongly supported by Sardinian politician Vicente Bacallar ) and Sicily ( July 1718 ), in spite of promises made to the Pope, while pressing Spanish causes in France with the Cellamare Conspiracy.

By the 17th century, Osei Kofi Tutu I ( c. 1695 – 1717 ), with help of Okomfo Anokye, unified what became the Ashante into a confederation with the Golden Stool as a symbol of their unity and spirit.

Daniel Purcell ( d. 1717 ), the youngest of the brothers, was also a prolific composer who wrote the music for much of the final act of The Indian Queen after Henry Purcell's death.

* 1717 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world ( now the United Grand Lodge of England ), is founded in London, England.

Three of Harrison's early wooden clocks have survived ; the first ( 1713 ) is at the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ' Collection in Guildhall ; the second ( 1715 ), is in the Science Museum and the third ( 1717 ) is at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, the face bearing the inscription " John Harrison Barrow ".

Nearly two centuries after the establishment of the New Kingdom of Granada in the 16th century, whose governor was loosely dependent upon the Viceroy of Peru at Lima, and an audiencia at Santa Fé de Bogotá ( today capital of the republic of Colombia ), the slowness of communications between the two capitals led to the creation of an independent Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 ( and its reestablishment in 1739 after a short interruption ).

Under Persian Safavid rule ( 1602 – 1717 ), Bahrain fell under the administrative jurisdiction of the Beglarbegi of Kuhgilu centered at Behbahan in southern Iran.

The British initially claimed St. Thomas ( and St. John as well ), but in 1717, the Danish disputed their claim to those islands.

Rudolph I's last agnatic descendant was Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress ( 1717 – 1780 ), by Albert I of Germany's fourth son Albert II, Duke of Austria.

Pope Pius VI ( 25 December 1717 – 29 August 1799 ), born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, was Pope from 1775 to 1799.

# Charlotte Fitzroy ( 1664 – 1717 ), married Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield

Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior ( 1646 – 1717 ), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith ( née Turner ) ( 1643 – 1733 ), who were both Catholics.

* Jean Jouvenet ( 1647 – 1717 ), painter

A number of new public buildings were also added including ; the Arsenal ( 1610 – 19 ), the town hall with its north staircase tower ( 1632 – 34 ) and its eastern facade ( Archive tower 1624, completed 1703-14 ), the Jesuit church ( 1680 – 89 ), the new Ambassadorenhof ( 1717 – 24 ), the Holy Spirit Hospital in a suburb ( 1735 – 1800 ) and the new classicist Church of St. Ursus ( 1763 – 90 ).

But the mention of Watteau should also alert us to the fact that Pierrot, along with his fellow Commedia masks, was beginning to be " poeticized " in this century — that he was beginning to be the subject, not only of poignant folksong (" Au clair de la lune ", sometimes attributed to Lully ), but also of the more ambitious art of Claude Gillot ( Master André's Tomb 1717 ), of Gillot's students Watteau ( Italian Actors 1719 ) and Nicolas Lancret ( Italian Actors near a Fountain 1719 ), of Jean-Baptiste Oudry ( Italian Actors in a Park 1725 ), and of Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( A Boy as Pierrot ).

Their numbers were boosted by the addition to their fleet of two more ships, one of which was commanded by Stede Bonnet, but toward the end of 1717 Hornigold retired from piracy, taking two vessels with him.

He based his claim partially upon a letter discovered in 1717 written in 1514 from Maximilian I to Vasili III, in which the Holy Roman Emperor used the term in referring to Vasili.

It was made independent in 1717 from the Safavid dynasty by the Afghans until 1736 when the Hotaki dynasty was defeated by the Afsharids, which finally became part of the Durrani Empire in 1747.

La Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne Réformée ( 1717 ) was a controversial treatise which in its four parts attacks the characteristic doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church ; it was translated into English, for the use of the Roman Catholics of his diocese of Dromore, by Dr. Ralph Lambert, afterwards bishop of Meath.

He brought his collection of fossils and stones to the Vatican, where he studied them at leisure, compiling the results in a manuscript, which was published posthumously by the Vatican at Rome in 1717 as Metallotheca.

In 1717, Swedish professor Olof Rudbeck proposed about 100 etymologies connecting Finnish and Hungarian, of which about 40 are still considered valid ( Collinder, 1965 ).

From 1717 to 1721 Stanhope served as effective First Minister and was a useful political contact for the Pitt family until the collapse of the South Sea Bubble which engulfed the government.

Henry Sully, writing in Paris in 1717, described the anchor escapement as " an admirable invention of which Dr. Hooke, formerly professor of geometry in Gresham College at London, was the inventor.

And in 1717, Pierrot's name first appears in an English entertainment: a pantomime by John Rich entitled The Jealous Doctor ; or, The Intriguing Dame, in which the role was undertaken by a certain Mr. Griffin.

) In the realm of song, Claude Debussy set both Verlaine's " Pantomime " and Banville's " Pierrot " ( 1842 ) to music in 1881 ( not published until 1926 )— the only precedents among works by major composers being the " Pierrot " section of Telemann's Burlesque Overture ( 1717 – 22 ), Mozart's 1783 " Masquerade " ( in which Mozart himself took the role of Harlequin and his brother-in-law, Joseph Lange, that of Pierrot ), and the " Pierrot " section of Robert Schumann's Carnival ( 1835 ).

In 1717 he went to Leipzig, where he was befriended by Johann Burkhard Mencke ( 1674 – 1732 ), who recognized his genius ; and there he published a poem on the peace of Passarowitz ( concluded between the German emperor and the Porte in 1718 ) which acquired him reputation.

In 1717 the Royal Society lent Pound Huygens's 123-foot object-glass, which he set up in Wanstead Park.

1 in Stonington, led to the establishment of a “ northern ” Congregational society in 1717, in which the northern part of Stonington aimed to build its own meeting house.

The Anne had originally been captured off the Virginia Capes in April by the pirate Samuel Bellamy in the Whydah, which wrecked in a storm on the night of April 26, 1717, off of Cape Cod.

The Anne had originally been captured off the Virginia Capes in April by the pirate Samuel Bellamy in the Whydah, which wrecked in a storm on the night of April 26, 1717, off of Cape Cod.

In 1717 and 1720, storms flooded Westerburen, which had to be abandoned around 1725, prey to drifting sand and the advancing sea.

Baker, though he had opposed James, refused to take the oaths to William ; he resigned Long Newton on 1 August 1690, and retired to St John's, in which he was protected till 20 January 1716 / 1717, when he and twenty-one others were deprived of their fellowships.

In January 1717 he produced the comedy, Three Hours after Marriage, which was grossly indecent without being amusing and a failure.

As a volunteer he served in Dormer's regiment at the Battle of Preston in 1715, spent some time on the Continent, and in 1717 entered Parliament for Seaford in Sussex which he represented until 1722.

In 1717, Arbuthnot contributed somewhat to Pope and Gay's play, Three Hours after Marriage, which ran for seven nights.

Johann David Michaelis ( 27 February 1717 – 22 August 1791 ), a famous and eloquent German biblical scholar and teacher, was a member of a family which had the chief part in maintaining that solid discipline in Hebrew and the cognate languages which distinguished the University of Halle in the period of Pietism.

A collection of the papers which passed between them was published in 1717.

Whilst at Carmarthen he also conducted surveys of the cathedrals of St David's and Llandaff which were published by his friend Browne Willis in 1717 and 1718.