1764 in France

none 1764 Events from the year 1764 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 15 March – The day after his return to Paris from a nine-year mission, French explorer and scholar Anquetil Du Perron presents a complete copy of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Zend Avesta, to the Bibliothèque Royale.The Zend-Avesta Darmesteter, James Oxford Clarendon Press 1880 xv 21 April – Residents of French Louisiana are informed for the first time that they will come under Spanish rule (from 1769) as the result of a secret agreement of 13 November 1762, whereby France has ceded all of its North American territory west of the Mississippi River.John B. Dillon Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America Robert Douglass Publishing 1879 322 The government withdraws wartime taxes. Beast of Gévaudan first appears. Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse perfect a commercial recipe for Chartreuse (liqueur).https://www.chartreuse.fr/en/home/ The Products of the Carthusian Fathers Chartreuse 2023-10-27 Births 11 February – Joseph Chénier, poet (d. 1811) 13 April – Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal (d. 1830) 26 April – Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint, aristocrat and civic administrator (d. 1853) 3 May – Princess Élisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI (executed 1794)Elizabeth Of France princess of France https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-of-France Encyclopedia Britannica 19 May 2020 en 13 August – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, general (d. 1813) 7 December Pierre Prévost, panorama painter (d. 1823) Claude-Victor Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Marshal of France (d. 1841) Full date unknown Sophie de Condorcet, political hostess and feminist (d. 1822) Deaths 15 April – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV (b. 1721) 11 September – Countess Dash, writer (born 1704) 12 September – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (b. 1683) 22 October – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer and violinist (murdered) (b. 1697) 23 October – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, naval officer (b. 1683) See also France History Lists References 1764 Category:1760s in France France