1776 in France explained

Events from the year 1776 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XVI^[1]

Events

• June–July – Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans, demonstrates his steamboat Palmipède on the Doubs (river).^[2]
• August – The guild organisation Marchandes de modes is founded.

Births

• 1 April  - Sophie Germain, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1831)
• 4 August  - Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (died 1847)

Full date missing

• Peter Gilles, composer (died 1839)^[3]

Deaths

• 4 May  - Jacques Saly, sculptor (born 1717)
• 25 August  - Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix, writer and playwright (born 1698)
• 17 October  - Pierre François le Courayer, writer (born 1681)

Full date missing

• Augustin Roux, encyclopedist (born 1726)
• Marie Durand, Protestant martyr (d. 1711)

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XVI . www.bbc.co.uk . 24 June 2022.
2. Book: Fox, W.. Claude-François-Dorothée de Jouffroy. The Catholic Encyclopedia. New Advent. 1910. New York. Robert Appleton Company. 2023-03-24.
3. Web site: Philadelphia Composers: Peter Gilles (1776-1839). John. Bewley. Keffler Collection of Sheet Music. 17 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20190203223242/http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/gilles.html. 3 February 2019. dead.