1775 in France

none 1775 Events from the year 1775 in France. Incumbents Monarch: Louis XVIHistory - King Louis XVI https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xvi.shtml BBC 24 June 2022 Events April–May – Flour War: riots against bread prices.Bourguinat Nicolas L'État et les violences frumentaires en France sous la Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet http://ruralia.revues.org/2 Ruralia January 1997 01 26 February 2014 11 June – Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims Cathedral, the last to take place during the Ancien régime Probable date – Jeanne Baret returns to France, becoming the first woman to complete a circumnavigation of the globe.January 2026 Births January to June 20 January – André-Marie Ampère, physicist (died 1836)https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofsci001gill 9780684101149 Dictionary of scientific biography 1970 New York Scribner 1 February – Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame (died 1845) Girard, Philippe de VII 1 3 February Maximilien Sébastien Foy, military leader, statesman and writer (died 1825). Louis-François Lejeune, general, painter and lithographer (died 1848). 30 April – Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, Marshal of France (died 1851). 10 May – Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, cavalry general (killed in battle) (died 1809). July to December 3 July – Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, younger brother of Louis Philippe I (died 1807). 23 July – Eugène-François Vidocq, criminal, later first director of Sûreté Nationale (died 1857). 6 August – Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, last Dauphin of France (died 1844). 22 August – François Péron, naturalist and explorer (died 1810). 1 September – Honoré Charles Reille, Marshal of France (died 1860). 11 November – Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, entomologist (died 1858). 30 November – Jean Joseph Antoine de Courvoisier, magistrate and politician (died 1835). 10 December – Jacques-Antoine Manuel, politician and orator (died 1827). 16 December – François-Adrien Boieldieu, composer (died 1834). Full date unknown Charles Berny d'Ouvillé, miniaturist (died 1842). Deaths January to June 5 March – Dormont de Belloy, actor/playwright (born 1727) 27 May – Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (born 1693) July to December 6 September – Jean-Baptiste Bullet, scholar (born 1699) 26 October – Pierre-Edmé Babel, engraver (born 1720) 1 November – Pierre-Joseph Bernard, poet (born 1708) 6 November – Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort, painter (born 1719) Full date unknown Nicolas La Grange, playwright and translator (born 1707) In literature The historical fiction A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by English novelist Charles Dickens opens in this year ("It was the best of times; it was the worst of times"); it is the story of London and Paris leading up to the French Revolution. See also France History Lists References 1775 Category:1770s in France France