Events from the year 1734 in
France
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Incumbents
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Monarch
A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...
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Louis XV
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reache ...
Events
*29 June –
Battle of San Pietro
The Battle of San Pietro, also known as the Battle of Crocetta or the Battle of Parma was a battle fought on 29 June 1734 between troops of France and Sardinia on one side, and Habsburg Austrian troops on the other, as part of the War of Polis ...
*19 September –
Battle of Guastalla
Births
*18 February –
Jean-Marie Roland, vicomte de la Platière
Jean-Marie is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Jean-Marie Abgrall (born 1950), a French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medicine, cult expert, and graduate in criminal law
* Jean-Marie Ch ...
, manufacturer (died 1793)
*9 March –
Marie-Suzanne Giroust
Marie-Suzanne Giroust (9 March 1734 — 31 August 1772), known as Madame Roslin, was a French painter, miniaturist, and pastellist, known for her portraits. She was a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Only a small numb ...
, painter (died 1772)
*April –
Nicolas Champenois, missionary (died 1811)
*Full date missing –
Gilles-Barnabé Guimard
Gilles-Barnabé Guimard (also Gilles Barnabé Guymard de Larabe or Barnabé Guimard) (1734–1805) was a French architect. He spent his entire career in the Habsburg Netherlands (present-day Belgium) where he led important architectural and ...
, architect (died 1805)
Deaths
*9 February –
Pierre Polinière, investigator of electricity and electrical phenomena (born 1671)
*10 February –
Jean Raoux
Jean Raoux (1677 – 10 February 1734), French painter, was born at Montpellier.
After the usual course of training he became a member of the Academy in 1717 as an historical painter. His reputation had been previously established by the ...
, painter (born 1677)
*1 April –
Louis Lully, composer (born 1664)
*21 May –
Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans
Philippine Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (18 December 1714 – 21 May 1734) was the daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and his wife, Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, the youngest legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV and Madame de Mon ...
, princess (born 1714)
*27 May –
Claude Audran III
Claude Audran III (25 August 1658 – 27 May 1734) was a French painter.
Audran was born in Lyon into a family of artists. He lived with his uncle, Claude Audran the Younger. Painter to the Louis XIV of France in 1699. From 1700-1701 he took part ...
, painter (born 1658)
*12 June –
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, military leader (born 1670)
*5 September –
Nicolas Bernier
Nicolas Bernier (28 June 1664 – 5 September 1734) was a French Baroque composer.
Biography
He was born in Mantes-sur-Seine (now Mantes-la-Jolie), the son of Rémy Bernier and Marguerite Bauly. He studied with Antonio Caldara and is know ...
, composer (born 1664)
*14 November –
Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth
Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth (5 September 1649 – 14 November 1734) was a mistress of Charles II of England.
Early life
Louise was the daughter of Guillaume de Penancoët, Seigneur de Kéroualle (d. 1690) ...
, mistress of
Charles II of England
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651, and King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.
Charles II was the eldest surviving child of ...
(born 1649)
*21 November –
Alexis Simon Belle
Alexis Simon Belle (12 January 1674 – 21 November 1734) was a French portrait painter, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility.
As a portrait artist, Belle's style followed that of his master François de Troy, Hyacinthe R ...
, painter (born 1674)
*Full date missing
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Louis de Chastillon
Louis de Chastillon (c.1639–1734) was a French painter in enamel and miniature, and an engraver.
Chastillon was born at Ste. Ménehould in Champagne about 1639. He excelled in enamel painting, and executed all the portraits which the king g ...
, painter (born c.1639)
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Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont
Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont (April 1679 – 1734) was a French explorer who documented his travels on the Missouri and Platte rivers in North America and made the first European maps of these areas in the early 18th century. He wrot ...
, explorer (born 1679)
See also
References
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