1746 in France

none 1746 Events from the year 1746 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 May 9 – Voltaire, on being admitted into the Académie française, gives a discours de réception in which he criticizes Boileau's poetry June 16 – Battle of Piacenza: Austrian forces defeat the French and Spanish (War of the Austrian Succession) August 12 – Battle of Rottofreddo: French forces repel an Austrial attack before withdrawing (War of the Austrian Succession) October 11 – Battle of Rocoux: French forces defeat the allied Austrian, British, Hanoverian and Dutch (War of the Austrian Succession) Jean-Étienne Guettard presents the first mineralogical map of France to the Académie des sciences DMC (Dollfus-Mieg & Cie.) established as a textile spinning company in Mulhouse by Jean-Henri Dollfus Births thumb |right |150 px |Jacques Charles January – Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, writer, harpist and educator (died 1830) March 7 – André Michaux, botanist (died 1802) March 30 – Francisco Goya, Spanish-born painter (died 1828) May 5 – Jean-Nicolas Pache, politician (died 1823) May 9 – Gaspard Monge, mathematician and geometer (died 1818) July 30 – Louise du Pierry, astronomer (died 1807) November 12 – Jacques Charles, physician (died 1823)Charles, Jacques Alexandre César Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon 4 1916 2 Blangstrup, Chr. Christian Blangstrup J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel Copenhagen da https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/4/0827.html 2015-09-09 Victor d'Hupay, philosopher and writer (died 1818) Deaths February 22 – Guillaume Coustou the Elder, sculptor and academician (born 1677) March 20 – Nicolas de Largillière, painter (born 1656) July 3 – Joseph-François Lafitau, Jesuit missionary and naturalist (born 1681) August 11 – Nicolas-Hubert de Mongault, ecclesiastic and writer (born 1674) Jacques Bonne-Gigault de Bellefonds, archbishop (born 1698) Michel Fourmont, antiquarian, scholar and forger (born 1690) Joseph d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, military officer in Acadia (born c. 1690?) See also France History Lists References 1746 Category:1740s in France France