1737 in France explained

Events from the year 1737 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV^[1]

Events

• February 20  - Foreign Minister Germain Louis Chauvelin is dismissed by Louis XV's Chief Minister, Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury.
• February 27  - Scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon publish the first study on dendrochronology.^[2]
• March 16  - In Paris, representatives sign an armistice bringing an end to the Spanish–Portuguese War (1735–1737).
• April 5  - Jesuit priest Jean-François Régis is canonized as Saint Regis by the Roman Catholic Church under the reign of Pope Clement XII.

Births

• January 18  - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, botanist (d. 1814)
• February 12  - Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, salon hostess (d. 1794)
• Marie-Catherine de Maraise, businesswoman (d. 1822)
• Anne Couppier de Romans, royal mistress (d. 1808)
• Marguerite Du Londel, ballerina (d. 1804 in Sweden)

Deaths

• June 4  - François Lemoyne, rococo painter (b. 1688)
• December 27  - Victor-Marie d'Estrées, marshal (b. 1660)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XV . www.bbc.co.uk . 17 June 2022.
2. De la cause de l'excentricité des couches ligneuses qu'on apperçoit quand on coupe horisontalement le tronc d'un arbre.