1755 in France explained

Events from the year 1755 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XV^[1]

Events

• Opéra national de Montpellier established
• Action of 8 June 1755

Births

Full date missing

• 1 April – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician and essayist (died 1826)^[2]
• 16 April – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (died 1842)^[3]
• 2 November – Maria Antonia, Austrian Habsburg princess who would later marry the incumbent King Louis XVs grandson, Prince Louis-Auguste (the future Louis XVI). (died 1793)
• 16 November – Maximin Isnard, revolutionary (died 1825)
• 17 November – Prince Louis Stanislaus, grandson of the reigning King Louis XV and future Louis XVIII. (died 1824)

Deaths

Full date missing

• Jean-Baptiste Oudry, painter, engraver and tapestry designer (born 1686)
• Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (born 1678)
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer (born 1689)
• Jean-Pierre Christin, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician (born 1683)
• Jean-Louis Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1665)
• Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, writer (born c.1695)
• Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, composer (born c.1705)
• Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain, nobleman (born 1748)
• Philip François Renault, explorer (born c.1686)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XV . www.bbc.co.uk . 17 June 2022.
2. Encyclopedia: Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme . . 4 . 1915 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 4 September 2015 .
3. Book: Magill, Frank N.. The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 4. Abingdon. Routledge. 1999. 978-0-89356-316-5. 1376.