1764 in France explained

Events from the year 1764 in France.

Incumbents

March 15 - 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]
April 21 - 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 November 13, 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]

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)
Undated - Sophie de Condorcet, political hostess and feminist (d. 1822)

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)

Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XV . www.bbc.co.uk . 17 June 2022.
Book: The Zend-Avesta. Darmesteter, James. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1880. xv.
Book: Dillon, John B.. Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America. Robert Douglass Publishing. 1879. 322.
Web site: The Products of the Carthusian Fathers. Chartreuse. 2023-10-27.
Web site: Elizabeth Of France princess of France . Encyclopedia Britannica . 19 May 2020 . en.