1774 in France

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Events from the year 1774 in France.

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Incumbents

Monarch â Louis XV (until 10 May),^[1] then Louis XVI^[2]

Events

10 May â Louis XV dies,^[1] and Louis XVI becomes the new king^[2]
Louis XVI faces empty treasury
Division of three estates

Births

9 March â Louis Auguste Say, economist and businessman, founder of sugar refineries in Nantes and Paris (died 1840)

Deaths

Charles Marie de La Condamine, explorer of the Amazon River

4 February â Charles Marie de La Condamine, explorer, geographer, and mathematician (born 1701)^[3]
24 April â Sara Banzet, educator and diarist (b. 1745)
10 May â Louis XV, King of France from 1715 (born 1710)^[1]
30 November â Nicolas-FranÃ§ois DuprÃ© de Saint-Maur, economist and statistician (born 1695)
16 December â FranÃ§ois Quesnay, economist (born 1694)
29 December â Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare (born 1757)

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Justine Paris, courtesan and madam (born 1705)
Catherine Michelle de Maisonneuve, editor and writer

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