1765 in France
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Incumbents
Events
- Ãcole nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort founded
- The Hennessy cognac house founded
Births
- 11 January â Antoine Alexandre Barbier, librarian (died 1825)
- 7 March â Nicéphore Niépce, inventor, pioneer photographer (died 1833)
- 26 July â Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, marshal (died 1844)
- 4 August â Claire Lacombe, actress and revolutionary
- 1 September â Ãtienne Pellot, "le Renard Basque", corsair (died 1856)
- 15 October â Joseph Dutens, engineer (died 1848)
- 17 November â Jacques MacDonald, marshal (died 1840)
- 3 December â Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet and painter from Brittany (died 1825)
Full date unknown
- James Smithson, British chemist, mineralogist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States (died 1829 in Italy)
Deaths
- 23 February â Jean Girard, organist (born 1696)
- 15 April â Ãlisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon, princess (born 1705)
- 29 June â François Dominique Barreau de Chefdeville, architect (born 1725)
- 5 September â Anne Claude de Caylus, antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters (born 1692)[2]
- 26 September â Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, explorer of North America (born 1683)
- 20 December â Louis, Dauphin of France (born 1729)
