1729 in France
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Events from the year 1729 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 9 November â France signed The Treaty of Seville with Britain and Spain bringing an end to the Anglo-Spanish War started in 1727.[2]
Births
- 18 April â Gaétan Vestris, dancer (died 1808)
- 12 November â Louis Antoine de Bougainville, admiral and explorer (died 1811)[3]
- 4 September â Dauphin Louis, Son of Louis XV (d. 1765)
Full date unknown
- Jean-Baptiste Marie de Piquet, Marquess of Méjanes, aristocrat and book collector (died 1786)
Deaths
- 26 March â Simon de la Loubère, diplomat, mathematician and poet (born 1642)
- 27 June â Ãlisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist and composer (b. 1665)[4]
- 18 October â Nicolas Ravot d'Ombreval, magistrate (born 1680)
- 1 December â Giacomo F. Maraldi, astronomer and mathematician (born 1665)
- 26 December â Honoré Tournély, Catholic theologian (born 1658)
