1730 in France
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Events from the year 1730 in France.
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 7 March â Baron de Breteuil, last prime minister of the French monarchy (d. 1807)
- 10 July - Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, French Freemason (d. 1824)
- 26 July â Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
Deaths
- 20 March â Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)[2]
- 7 July â Olivier Levasseur, French pirate
- 18 July â François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
- 15 October â Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)
- 21 November â François de Troy, French portrait artist (b. 1645)
