1775 in France
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Events from the year 1775 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- AprilâMay â Flour War: riots against bread prices.[2]
- 11 June â Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims Cathedral, the last to take place during the Ancien régime
- Probable date â Jeanne Baret returns to France, becoming the first woman to complete a circumnavigation of the globe.[citation needed]
Births
January to June
- 20 January â André-Marie Ampère, physicist (died 1836)[3]
- 1 February â Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame (died 1845)[4]
- 3 February
- Maximilien Sébastien Foy, military leader, statesman and writer (died 1825).
- Louis-François Lejeune, general, painter and lithographer (died 1848).
- 30 April â Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, Marshal of France (died 1851).
- 10 May â Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, cavalry general (killed in battle) (died 1809).
July to December
- 3 July â Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, younger brother of Louis Philippe I (died 1807).
- 23 July â Eugène-François Vidocq, criminal, later first director of Sûreté Nationale (died 1857).
- 6 August â Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, last Dauphin of France (died 1844).
- 22 August â François Péron, naturalist and explorer (died 1810).
- 1 September â Honoré Charles Reille, Marshal of France (died 1860).
- 11 November â Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, entomologist (died 1858).
- 30 November â Jean Joseph Antoine de Courvoisier, magistrate and politician (died 1835).
- 10 December â Jacques-Antoine Manuel, politician and orator (died 1827).
- 16 December â François-Adrien Boieldieu, composer (died 1834).
Full date unknown
- Charles Berny d'Ouvillé, miniaturist (died 1842).
Deaths
January to June
- 5 March â Dormont de Belloy, actor/playwright (born 1727)
- 27 May â Louise Ãlisabeth de Bourbon (born 1693)
July to December
- 6 September â Jean-Baptiste Bullet, scholar (born 1699)
- 26 October â Pierre-Edmé Babel, engraver (born 1720)
- 1 November â Pierre-Joseph Bernard, poet (born 1708)
- 6 November â Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort, painter (born 1719)
Full date unknown
- Nicolas La Grange, playwright and translator (born 1707)
In literature
- The historical fiction A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by English novelist Charles Dickens opens in this year ("It was the best of times; it was the worst of times"); it is the story of London and Paris leading up to the French Revolution.
