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1774
Events from the year 1774 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch – Louis XV (until 10 May),BBC - History - King Louis XV https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xv.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 17 June 2022 then Louis XVIBBC - History - King Louis XVI https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xvi.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 24 June 2022
Events
10 May – Louis XV dies, and Louis XVI becomes the new king
Louis XVI faces empty treasury
Division of three estates
Births
9 March – Louis Auguste Say, economist and businessman, founder of sugar refineries in Nantes and Paris (died 1840)
Deaths
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4 February – Charles Marie de La Condamine, explorer, geographer, and mathematician (born 1701)Condamine, Charles Marie de la 169 Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon 5 1916 2 Blangstrup, Chr. Christian Blangstrup J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel Copenhagen da https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/5/0177.html 17 August 2015
24 April – Sara Banzet, educator and diarist (b. 1745)
10 May – Louis XV, King of France from 1715 (born 1710)
30 November – Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, economist and statistician (born 1695)
16 December – François Quesnay, economist (born 1694)
29 December – Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare (born 1757)
Full date unknown
Justine Paris, courtesan and madam (born 1705)
Catherine Michelle de Maisonneuve, editor and writer
See also
France History Lists
References
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Category:1770s in France
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