1737 in France
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Events from the year 1737 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- February 20 â Foreign Minister Germain Louis Chauvelin is dismissed by Louis XV's Chief Minister, Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury.
- February 27 â Scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon publish the first study on dendrochronology.[2]
- March 16 â In Paris, representatives sign an armistice bringing an end to the SpanishâPortuguese War (1735â1737).
- April 5 â Jesuit priest Jean-François Régis is canonized as Saint Regis by the Roman Catholic Church under the reign of Pope Clement XII.
Births
- January 18 â Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, botanist (d. 1814)
- February 12 â Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, salon hostess (d. 1794)
- Marie-Catherine de Maraise, businesswoman (d. 1822)
- Anne Couppier de Romans, royal mistress (d. 1808)
- Marguerite Du Londel, ballerina (d. 1804 in Sweden)
Deaths
- June 4 â François Lemoyne, rococo painter (b. 1688)
- December 27 â Victor-Marie d'Estrées, marshal (b. 1660)
