1764 in France
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Events from the year 1764 in France.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 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.[2]
- 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.[3]
- The government withdraws wartime taxes.
- Beast of Gévaudan first appears.
- Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse perfect a commercial recipe for Chartreuse (liqueur).[4]
Births
[edit]- 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)[5]
- 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
[edit]- Sophie de Condorcet, political hostess and feminist (d. 1822)
Deaths
[edit]- 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
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References
[edit]- ↑ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ↑ Darmesteter, James, ed. (1880). The Zend-Avesta. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. xv.
- ↑ Dillon, John B. (1879). Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America. Robert Douglass Publishing. p. 322.
- ↑ "The Products of the Carthusian Fathers". Chartreuse. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
- ↑ "Elizabeth Of France | princess of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
