1775 in France

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Events from the year 1775 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XVI^[1]

Events

• April–May – Flour War: riots against bread prices.^[2]
• 11 June –
  Ancien Regime
• Probable date – Jeanne Baret returns to France, becoming the first woman to complete a circumnavigation of the globe.

Births

January to June

• 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
  ).

• 3 July –
  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 –
  explorer (died 1810
  ).
• 1 September – Honoré Charles Reille, Marshal of France (died 1860).
• 11 November –
  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

• Charles Berny d'Ouvillé, miniaturist (died 1842).

Deaths

January to June

• 5 March –
  Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy
  , actor/playwright (born 1727)
• 27 May – Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (born 1693)

July to December

• 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

• Nicolas La Grange, playwright and translator (born 1707)

In literature

• 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

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