1748 in France explained

Events from the year 1748 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV^[1]

Events

• • • • April  - Maastricht is conquered by Maurice de Saxe.
• 24 April  - War of the Austrian Succession: A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) with the intent to conclude the war.
• 18 October  - War of the Austrian Succession: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war. Great Britain obtains Madras, in India, from France, in exchange for the fortress of Louisbourg in Canada.
• Louis XV of France authorizes a 5% income tax on every individual regardless of social status; the Parlement of Paris protests.

Births

• 12 April  - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, botanist (d. 1836)
• 27 April  - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, author (d. 1815)
• 3 May  - Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, cleric and constitutional theorist (d. 1836)
• 7 May  - Olympe de Gouges, playwright and political activist (guillotined 1793)
• 10 May  - Louis Pierre Vieillot, ornithologist (d. 1831)
• 30 June  - Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, astronomer (d. 1845)
• 30 August  - Jacques-Louis David, historical painter (d. 1825)
• 9 December  - Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist (d. 1822)
• Rosalie Duthé, courtesan and artists' model (d. 1830)

Deaths

• 7 March  - Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, noblewoman, Princess of Epinoy by marriage (b. 1664)
• 17 May  - Henri, Duke of Elbeuf, member of the House of Lorraine (b. 1661)
• 16 June  - Jean Philippe d'Orléans, illegitimate son of future regent Philippe d'Orleans (b. 1702)
• 14 August  - Thomas Germain, silversmith (b. 1673)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XV . www.bbc.co.uk . 17 June 2022.