1775 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XVI

Events

• April–May – Flour War: riots against bread prices.
• 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.

Births

January to June

• 20 January – André-Marie Ampère, physicist (died 1836)
• 1 February – Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame (died 1845)
• 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.

References

References

1. "History - King Louis XVI". BBC.
2. Bourguinat, Nicolas. (January 1997). "L'État et les violences frumentaires en France sous la Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet". Ruralia.
3. (1970). "Dictionary of scientific biography". Scribner.
4. {{Cite AmCyc