1765 in France
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Events from the year 1765 in France
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort founded
- The Hennessy cognac house founded
Births
[edit]- 11 January – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, librarian (died 1825)
- 7 March – Nicéphore Niépce, inventor, pioneer photographer (died 1833)
- 26 July – Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, marshal (died 1844)
- 4 August – Claire Lacombe, actress and revolutionary
- 1 September – Étienne Pellot, "le Renard Basque", corsair (died 1856)
- 15 October – Joseph Dutens, engineer (died 1848)
- 17 November – Jacques MacDonald, marshal (died 1840)
- 3 December – Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet and painter from Brittany (died 1825)
- Approximate date – James Smithson, British chemist, mineralogist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States (died 1829 in Italy)
Deaths
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- 23 February – Jean Girard, organist (born 1696)
- 15 April – Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon, princess (born 1705)
- 29 June – François Dominique Barreau de Chefdeville, architect (born 1725)
- 5 September – Anne Claude de Caylus, antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters (born 1692)[2]
- 26 September – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, explorer of North America (born 1683)
- Date unknown – Louis-Antoine Dornel, composer (born c.1685)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1916). "Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe de Tubieres". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 5 September 2015.