1773 in France explained

Events from the year 1773 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XV^[1]

Events

• 24 February  - Decision of the council reorganizing recovery of the poll tax on the bourgeoisie of Paris. Rents are recorded by Intendant Bertier de Sauvigny and the tax is calculated proportionally; the tax yield increases from 850,000 livres to 1,400,000 livres.^[2]
• 7 April or 24 May  - Freemasonry in France: The 200 masonic lodges are reorganized within the Grand Orient de France in a vast relational system hierarchized by affiliation.^[3]
• 9 May  - Hunger riots in Bordeaux.^[4]
• 13 October  - Astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 31 million light-years, in the constellation Canes Venatici.
• Lagrange presents his work on the secular equation of the Moon to the Académie française, introducing the idea of the potential of a body. He also publishes on the attraction of ellipsoids and other mathematical matters.
• Hilaire Rouelle discovers urea.
• Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau proposes the use of "muriatic acid gas" (hydrogen chloride) for fumigation of buildings.
• Antoine Baumé publishes his textbook Chymie expérimentale et raisonnée in Paris.

Births

• 6 April  - Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais, genealogist (died 1842)
• 2 September  - Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont, Marshal of France (died 1846)^[5]
• 6 September  - François Fournier-Sarlovèze, military officer (died 1827)
• 14 September  - Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes, military officer (died 1822 at sea)
• 6 October  - Louis Philippe I "Citizen King" of the French (died 1850)^[6]
• 12 December  - Robert Surcouf, privateer, businessman and slave-trader (died 1827)

Deaths

• 24 January  - Philippe Buache, geographer (died 1700)
• 14 March  - Philibert Commerson, naturalist (born 1727)
• 30 October  - Philippe de La Guêpière, architect (born c.1715)
• 7 November  - Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Abbess of Mons (born 1714)
• Full date missing  - Maximin de Bompart, naval officer (born 1698)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XV . www.bbc.co.uk . 17 June 2022.
2. Book: Touzery, Mireille. L’invention de l’impôt sur le revenu: la taille tarifée 1715-1789. Vincennes. Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique. 1994. 978-2-8218-2850-6.
3. Book: Alain. Bauer. Pierre. Mollier. Le Grand Orient de France. Paris. PUF. Que sais-je?. 2012. 14. 978-2-13-061447-0.
4. Book: Histoire des maires de Bordeaux. Bordeaux. Les Dossiers d'Aquitaine. 2008. 978-2-84622-171-9. 234.
5. Encyclopedia: Bourmont, Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisnes . . 3 . 1915 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 3 September 2015 .
6. Book: Antonetti, Guy. Louis-Philippe. Fayard. 1994. 978-2-213-65288-7. PT38.