1766 in France
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Events from the year 1766 in France.
Incumbents
Events
On 3 March 1766 Louis XV gave a speech to the Parlement of Paris addressing his problems with the actions of the magistrates.[2]
Art
- Saint Peter Attempting to Walk on Water, oil painting by François Boucher
Births
- 8 July â Dominique Jean Larrey, surgeon and military doctor(died 1842)
- 6 August â Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré, hydrographic engineer and cartographer (died 1854)[3]
- 7 October â Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga, military officer (died 1849)
- 14 December â Louis-François Bertin, journalist and publisher (died 1841)[4]
Full date unknown
- Thomas Henry (patron of the arts), painter and patron of the arts (died 1836)
Deaths
- 19 January â Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, decorator and architect (born 1695)
- 9 May â Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, military officer (born 1702)
- 24 June â Adrien Maurice de Noailles, aristocrat and soldier (born 1678)
- 7 November â Jean-Marc Nattier, painter (born 1685)
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