1774 in France explained

Events from the year 1774 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XV (until 10 May),^[1] then Louis XVI^[2]

Events

• 10 May  - Louis XV of France dies, and Louis XVI becomes the new king
• Louis XVI faces empty treasury
• division of three estates

Births

• 9 March  - Louis Auguste Say, economist and businessman, founder of sugar refineries in Nantes and Paris (died 1840)

Deaths

• 4 February  - Charles Marie de La Condamine, explorer, geographer, and mathematician (born 1701)^[3]
• 24 April  - Sara Banzet, educator and diarist (b. 1745)
• 10 May  - Louis XV, King of France from 1715 (born 1710)
• 30 November  - Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, economist and statistician (born 1695)
• 16 December  - François Quesnay, economist (born 1694)
• 29 December  - Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare (born 1757)
• date unknown:
  • Justine Paris, courtesan and madam (born 1705)
  • Catherine Michelle de Maisonneuve, editor and writer

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XV . www.bbc.co.uk . 17 June 2022.
2. Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XVI . www.bbc.co.uk . 24 June 2022.
3. Encyclopedia: Condamine, Charles Marie de la . 169 . . 5 . 1916 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 17 August 2015 .