1784 in France
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Events from the year 1784 in France.
Incumbents
Events
Science
- Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism appointed in Paris.[2]
Arts and culture
Opera
- 18 September â Dardanus, opera by Antonio Sacchini, was first performed at Versailles
Theatre
- Le Bon Père, comedy by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, first performed by the Comédie Italienne in Paris in 1784
Births
- 6 October â Charles Dupin, mathematician (died 1873)[3]
Deaths
- 29 January â Abbé François Blanchet, intellectual (born 1707)
- 15 February â Pierre Macquer, chemist (born 1718)
- 7 March â Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi, botanist and poet (born 1734)
- 30 March â Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre, military officer (born 1718)
- 30 July â Denis Diderot, philosopher (born 1713)[4]
- 1 September â Jean-François Séguier, botanist and astronomer (born 1703)
- 1 November â Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, man of letters and erudition (born 1709)
