1770 in France

none 1770 Events from the year 1770 in France. Incumbents Monarch – Louis XVBBC History Louis XV (1710-1774) https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xv.shtml 2025-05-21 Events 16 May – 14-year-old Marie Antoinette of Austria marries Louis-Auguste (who in 1774 becomes King Louis XVI) at the Palace of Versailles 20 May – A stampede at a celebration of the newly wedded Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste in Paris kills more than a hundred peopleDelalex, Hélène Maral, Alexandre Milovanovic, Nicolas Marie-Antoinette https://books.google.com/books?id=wgVVDQAAQBAJ 2016 Getty Publications Los Angeles 25 9781606064832 3 June – The 7.5 w y Port-au-Prince earthquake affects the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 250 or more 14 June–3 October – Charles Messier observes Lexell's Comet as it passes closer to Earth than any other in recorded historyD/1770 L1 (Lexell) http://cometography.com/pcomets/1770l1.html Gary W. Kronk's Cometography 2025-05-21 7 December – Louis XV issues the Edict of December, dismissing rebellious magistrates of the Parlements of Paris and the other 13 provincesLeonore Loft Passion, Politics and Philosophie: rediscovering J.-P. Brissot Greenwood Westport, Ct 2002 55Dale K. Van Kley The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: from Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791 Yale University Press New Haven 1996 249 24 December – César Gabriel de Choiseul is dismissed from his position as Secretary of the Navy by the kingAntony Strugnell Diderot's Politics: a study of the Evolution of Diderot's Political Thought after the Encyclopedie Nijhof 2012 123 Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles established Joseph-Louis Lagrange proves Bachet's conjecture The Baron d'Holbach's (anonymous) materialist work Le Système de la Nature ou Des Loix du Monde Physique et du Monde Moral is published Culture 20 January – The new Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), the first purpose-built opera house in Paris, designed by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, is inaugurated with a performance of Rameau's ZoroastrePitou Spire 1983 The Paris Opéra: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers and Performers: Genesis and Glory, 1671–1715 Westport, Ct Greenwood 9780313214202 26Mead Christopher Curtis 1991 Charles Garnier's Paris Opera Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press 978-0-262-13275-6 45 16 May – The new Opéra royal de Versailles, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, is inaugurated.Praefcke Andreas http://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/france/f_versailles_gabriel.htm Carthalia Versailles: Théâtre Gabriel / Opéra Royal English 2025-05-21 27 October – First performance of the opera Les deux avares, written by André Grétry, at Fontainebleau December – The Library of the Sorbonne in Paris is opened to the publicDavid H. Stam International Dictionary of Library Histories https://books.google.com/books?id=APtYCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA881 2001 Routledge London 978-1-136-77785-1 881 The Théâtre Déjazet is established in Paris by the Comte d'Artois Anne Vallayer-Coster is admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the age of 26McKinven, Mary Jane (June 2002). Stunning Still Lifes by Anne Vallayer-Coster, Foremost 18th-Century Painter in Court of Marie-Antoinette. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art. Births 5 February – Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (died 1847) 21 February – Georges Mouton, Marshal of France (died 1838) 2 March – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (died 1826) 25 March – Antoine Richepanse, revolutionary general (died 1802) 10 May – Louis-Nicolas Davout, Marshal of France (died 1823) 18 December – Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France, Minister of War (died 1840) Deaths right|thumb|150px|Esprit Antoine Blanchard 14 March – Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet, clergyman and moralist (born 1697) 19 April – Esprit Antoine Blanchard, musician (born 1696)Blanchard, Esprit Joseph Antoine 385 Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon 3 1915 2 Blangstrup, Chr. Christian Blangstrup J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel Copenhagen da https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/3/0431.html 2015-08-28 25 April – Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (born 1700) 30 May – François Boucher, painter (born 1703) 3 August – Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist and apothecary (born 1703) 28 November – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, historian (born 1685) 15 December – Pierre-Joseph Alary, ecclesiastic and writer (born 1689) See also France History Lists References 1770 Category:1770s in France France