1745 in France
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Events from the year 1745 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 11 May â War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy â French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch.[2]
- 9 July â War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Melle â The French are victorious in an engagement against the Pragmatic Allies.
- 14 September â Madame de Pompadour is officially presented in the court of Louis XV.
Births
- 6 January â Jacques-Ãtienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
- 20 April â Philippe Pinel, French physician (d. 1826)
- 8 July â Sara Banzet, educator and diarist (d. 1774)
Deaths
- 22 May â François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
- 9 December â Ãtienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683)
- 19 December â Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
