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1750
Events from the year 1750 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch – Louis XVBBC - History - King Louis XV https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xv.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 17 June 2022
Events
16 May – Two weeks after police in Paris arrest six teenagers for gambling in the suburb of Saint-Laurent, rioting breaks out when a rumor spreads that plainclothes policemen are hauling off small children between the ages of five and ten years old, in order to provide blood to an ailing aristocrat.Child Abduction Panic Outbreak!: The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior Evans, Hilary Bartholomew, Robert E. Anomalist Books 2009 83–84 Over the next two weeks, rioting breaks out in other sections of the city. Police are attacked, including one who is beaten to death by the mob, until order is restored and police reforms are announced.Henri Martin The Decline of the French Monarchy Walker, Fuller and Company 1866 395
20 August – French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, by way of the Foreign Minister, the Marquis de Puisieulx and Netherlands ambassador to Paris Mattheus Lestevenon, sends a letter that ultimately persuades the States-General of the Dutch Republic to allow and partially finance Lacaille's stellar trigonometry mission to the Cape of Good Hope. The expedition departs Lorient on 21 October.Ian S. Glass Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist Oxford University Press 2013 30–33Thomas Maclear Verification and Extension of La Caille's Arc of Meridian at the Cape of Good Hope Mowry and Barclay 1838 58
14 October – Display of 110 paintings from the royal art collection at the Luxembourg Palace in Paris is arranged by Abel-François Poisson, the Marquis de Marigny, origin of both the Louvre museum and Musée du Luxembourg.The First Transfer at the Louvre in 1750: Andrea del Sarto's La Charite Gilberte Emile-Male Issues in the Conservation of Paintings Getty Publications 2004 278
École Militaire established.
The learned society Académie de Stanislas founded.
Births
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24 January – Nicolas Bergasse, lawyer, philosopher and politician (died 1832)Bergasse, Nicolas 23 Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon 3 1915 2 Blangstrup, Chr. Christian Blangstrup J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel Copenhagen da https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/3/0031.html 19 August 2015
20 May – Stephen Girard, French-born, naturalized American, philanthropist and banker (died 1831)
5 December – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, painter (died 1819)
8 December – Gabriel-Taurin Dufresse, bishop (died 1815)
Full date unknown
Thérèse Caval, French revolutionary (died 1795)Académie de Marseille, Dictionnaire des Marseillais, Edisud, Marseille, 2003 (2-7449-0254-3)
Deaths
3 April – Nicolas Antoine II Coulon de Villiers, military officer (born 1708)
20 April – Jean Louis Petit, surgeon (born 1674)
31 July – Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, goldsmith, sculptor, painter, architect, and furniture designer (born 1695)
20 November – Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon, princess (born 1696)
See also
France History Lists
References
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