1753 in France
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Events from the year 1753 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- The chemical element bismuth discovered by Claude François Geoffroy
Births
- 4 July âJean-Pierre Blanchard, inventor, pioneer in balloon flight (died 1809)
- 25 July â Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, military officer in Spanish colonial service, Viceroy of the RÃo de la Plata (executed 1810)
- 20 November â Louis-Alexandre Berthier, maréchal de France (died 1815)[2]
- 23 November â Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas, military officer (died 1837)
Full date unknown
- Pierre Cuillier-Perron, military adventurer (died 1834)
- Charles Julien Fanneau de Lahorie, French sailor (died 1822)
Deaths
- 18 June â Claude François Geoffroy, chemist (born 1729)
- 10 November â Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, naval officer (born 1699)
- 10 December â Claude Gros de Boze, scholar and numismatist (born 1680)
