1755 in France
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Events from the year 1755 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- Opéra national de Montpellier established
- Action of 8 June 1755
Births

- 1 April â Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician and essayist (died 1826)[2]
- 16 April â Ãlisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (died 1842)[3]
- 2 November â Maria Antonia, Austrian Habsburg princess who would later marry the incumbent King Louis XVs grandson, Prince Louis-Auguste (the future Louis XVI). (died 1793)
- 16 November â Maximin Isnard, revolutionary (died 1825)
- 17 November â Prince Louis Stanislaus, grandson of the reigning King Louis XV and future Louis XVIII. (died 1824)
Deaths
- 11 January â Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, composer (born c.1705)
- 19 January â Jean-Pierre Christin, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician (born 1683)
- 24 April â Philip François Renault, explorer (born c.1686)
- 30 April â Jean-Baptiste Oudry, painter, engraver and tapestry designer (born 1686)
- 19 May â Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain, nobleman (born 1748)
- 28 October â Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer (born 1689)
- 25 November â Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (born 1678)
- 29 December â Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, writer (born c.1695)
Full date unknown
- Jean-Louis Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1665)
