1774 in France
Years in France: | 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 |
Centuries: | 17th century · 18th century · 19th century |
Decades: | 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s |
Years: | 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 |
Events from the year 1774 in France
Incumbents
Events
- 10 May – Louis XV of France dies, and Louis XVI becomes the new king
Births
- 9 March – Louis Auguste Say, economist and businessman, founder of sugar refineries in Nantes and Paris (died 1840)
Deaths
- 4 February – Charles Marie de La Condamine, explorer, geographer, and mathematician (born 1701).[1]
- 10 May – Louis XV, King of France and Navarre from 1715 (born 1710)
- 30 November – Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, economist and statistician (born 1695)
- 16 December – François Quesnay, economist (born 1994)
- 29 December – Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare (born 1757)
- Justine Paris, courtesan and madam (born 1705)
References
- ↑ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1916). "Condamine, Charles Marie de la". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). 5 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 169. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
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