1775 in France
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Events from the year 1775 in France.
Incumbents[edit]
Events[edit]
- April–May – Flour War: riots against bread prices.[2]
- 11 June – Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims Cathedral, the last to take place during the Ancien Regime
- Probable date – Jeanne Baret returns to France, becoming the first woman to complete a circumnavigation of the globe.
Births[edit]
January to June[edit]
- 20 January – André-Marie Ampère, physicist (died 1836)[3]
- 1 February – Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame (died 1845)[4]
- 3 February
- Maximilien Sebastien Foy, military leader, statesman and writer (died 1825).
- Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, general, painter and lithographer (died 1848).
- 30 April – Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, Marshal of France (died 1851).
- 10 May – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, cavalry general (killed in battle) (died 1809).
July to December[edit]
- 3 July – Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, younger brother of Louis-Philippe of France (died 1807).
- 23 July – Eugène François Vidocq, criminal, later first director of Sûreté Nationale (died 1857).
- 6 August – Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, last Dauphin of France (died 1844).
- 22 August – François Péron, naturalist and explorer (died 1810).
- 1 September – Honoré Charles Reille, Marshal of France (died 1860).
- 11 November – Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, entomologist (died 1858).
- 30 November – Jean Joseph Antoine de Courvoisier, magistrate and politician (died 1835).
- 10 December – Jacques-Antoine Manuel, politician and orator (died 1827).
- 16 December – François-Adrien Boieldieu, composer (died 1834).
Full date unknown[edit]
- Charles Berny d'Ouvillé, miniaturist (died 1842).
Deaths[edit]
January to June[edit]
- 5 March – Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy, actor/playwright (born 1727)
- 27 May – Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (born 1693)
July to December[edit]
- 6 September – Jean-Baptiste Bullet, scholar (born 1699)
- 26 October – Pierre-Edmé Babel, engraver (born 1720)
- 1 November – Pierre-Joseph Bernard, poet (born 1708)
- 6 November – Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort, painter (born 1719)
Full date unknown[edit]
- Nicolas La Grange, playwright and translator (born 1707)
In literature[edit]
- The historical fiction A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by English novelist Charles Dickens opens in this year ("It was the best of times; it was the worst of times"); it is the story of London and Paris leading up to the French Revolution.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XVI". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ Bourguinat, Nicolas (January 1997). "L'État et les violences frumentaires en France sous la Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet". Ruralia (01). Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ^ Dictionary of scientific biography. New York, Scribner. 1970. ISBN 9780684101149.
- ^ . The American Cyclopædia. Vol. VII. 1879.