1772 in France
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Events from the year 1772 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 12 February â Breton-French explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec discovers the uninhabited Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Ocean.
- The Clicquot Champagne house is founded by Philippe Clicquot in Reims.
- Houbigant Parfum is founded by Jean-François Houbigant of Grasse in Paris.[2]
Births
- 20 January â Angélique Brûlon, soldier, first female Knight of the Legion of Honour (d. 1859)
- 7 April â Charles Fourier, philosopher (d. 1837)
- 25 October â Géraud Duroc, general (d. 1813)
Deaths
- 21 March â Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, cartographer (b. 1703)
- 26 March â Charles Pinot Duclos, writer (b. 1704)
- 15 June â Louis-Claude Daquin, composer (b. 1694)
- 22 June â François-Vincent Toussaint, writer most famous for Les MÅurs (b. 1715)
- 8 October â Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, violinist and composer (b. 1711)
