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1748
Events from the year 1748 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
April – Maastricht is conquered by Maurice de Saxe.
24 April – War of the Austrian Succession: A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) with the intent to conclude the war.
18 October – War of the Austrian Succession: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war. Great Britain obtains Madras, in India, from France, in exchange for the fortress of Louisbourg in Canada.
Louis XV authorizes a 5% income tax on every individual regardless of social status; the Parlement of Paris protests.
Births
12 April – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, botanist (d. 1836)
27 April – Pierre-Louis Ginguené, author (d. 1815)
3 May – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, cleric and constitutional theorist (d. 1836)
7 May – Olympe de Gouges, playwright and political activist (guillotined 1793)
10 May – Louis Pierre Vieillot, ornithologist (d. 1831)
30 June – Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, astronomer (d. 1845)
30 August – Jacques-Louis David, historical painter (d. 1825)
9 December – Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist (d. 1822)
Rosalie Duthé, courtesan and artists' model (d. 1830)
Deaths
7 March – Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, noblewoman, Princess of Epinoy by marriage (b. 1664)
17 May – Henri, Duke of Elbeuf, member of the House of Lorraine (b. 1661)
16 June – Jean Philippe d'Orléans, illegitimate son of future regent Philippe d'Orleans (b. 1702)
14 August – Thomas Germain, silversmith (b. 1673)
See also
France History Lists
References
1748
Category:1740s in France
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