1764 in France
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Events from the year 1764 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 15 March â The day after his return to Paris from a nine-year mission, French explorer and scholar Anquetil Du Perron presents a complete copy of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Zend Avesta, to the Bibliothèque Royale.[2]
- 21 April â Residents of French Louisiana are informed for the first time that they will come under Spanish rule (from 1769) as the result of a secret agreement of 13 November 1762, whereby France has ceded all of its North American territory west of the Mississippi River.[3]
- The government withdraws wartime taxes.
- Beast of Gévaudan first appears.
- Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse perfect a commercial recipe for Chartreuse (liqueur).[4]
Births
- 11 February â Joseph Chénier, poet (d. 1811)
- 13 April â Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal (d. 1830)
- 26 April â Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint, aristocrat and civic administrator (d. 1853)
- 3 May â Princess Ãlisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI (executed 1794)[5]
- 13 August â Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, general (d. 1813)
- 7 December
- Pierre Prévost, panorama painter (d. 1823)
- Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Marshal of France (d. 1841)
Full date unknown
- Sophie de Condorcet, political hostess and feminist (d. 1822)
Deaths
- 15 April â Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV (b. 1721)
- 11 September â Countess Dash, writer (born 1704)
- 12 September â Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (b. 1683)
- 22 October â Jean-Marie Leclair, composer and violinist (murdered) (b. 1697)
- 23 October â Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, naval officer (b. 1683)
