1731 in France
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Events from the year 1731 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 9 April â The Diocese of Dijon established
Births
- 18 June â Jean-Louis de Boubers, printer, publisher and bookseller (died 1804)
- 24 July â Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, chemist (died 1799)
- 12 October â Jean-Baptiste Blanchard. Jesuit and educator (died 1797)[2]
Full date unknown
- André-Charles Cailleau, book publisher (died 1798)
Deaths
- 6 January â Ãtienne François Geoffroy, physician and chemist (born 1672)
- 21 February â Blaise Gisbert, Jesuit rhetorician (born 1657)
- 11 July â Jean-François Leriget de La Faye, diplomat (born 1674)
- 3 August â Charles Saint-Yves, ophthalmologist (born 1667)
- 26 December â Antoine Houdar de la Motte, author (born 1672)
