1746 in France explained

Events from the year 1746 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XV^[1]

Events

• May 9  - Voltaire, on being admitted into the Académie française, gives a discours de réception in which he criticizes Boileau's poetry
• June 16  - Battle of Piacenza: Austrian forces defeat the French and Spanish (War of the Austrian Succession)
• August 12  - Battle of Rottofreddo: French forces repel an Austrial attack before withdrawing (War of the Austrian Succession)
• October 11  - Battle of Rocoux: French forces defeat the allied Austrian, British, Hanoverian and Dutch (War of the Austrian Succession)
• Jean-Étienne Guettard presents the first mineralogical map of France to the Académie des sciences
• DMC (Dollfus-Mieg & Cie.) established as a textile spinning company in Mulhouse by Jean-Henri Dollfus

Births

• January  - Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, writer, harpist and educator (died 1830)
• March 7  - André Michaux, botanist (died 1802)
• March 30  - Francisco Goya, Spanish-born painter (died 1828)
• May 5  - Jean-Nicolas Pache, politician (died 1823)
• May 9  - Gaspard Monge, mathematician and geometer (died 1818)
• July 30  - Louise du Pierry, astronomer (died 1807)
• November 12  - Jacques Charles, physician (died 1823)^[2]
• Victor d'Hupay, philosopher and writer (died 1818)

Deaths

• February 22  - Guillaume Coustou the Elder, sculptor and academician (born 1677)
• March 20  - Nicolas de Largillière, painter (born 1656)
• July 3  - Joseph-François Lafitau, Jesuit missionary and naturalist (born 1681)
• August 11  - Nicolas-Hubert de Mongault, ecclesiastic and writer (born 1674)
• Jacques Bonne-Gigault de Bellefonds, archbishop (born 1698)
• Michel Fourmont, antiquarian, scholar and forger (born 1690)
• Joseph d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, military officer in Acadia (born c. 1690?)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XV . www.bbc.co.uk . 17 June 2022.
2. Encyclopedia: Charles, Jacques Alexandre César. Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon. 4. 1916. 2. Blangstrup, Chr.. Christian Blangstrup. J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Copenhagen. da. 2015-09-09.