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Events from the year 1755 in
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
Incumbents
*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 ...
– 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
*Opéra national de Montpellier
The Opéra national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon is an opera company located in the Place de la Comédie in Montpellier, France.
The company was established in 1755 and was granted the status of "National Opera" in 2002 by the French Minist ...
established
*Action of 8 June 1755
Action may refer to:
* Action (narrative), a literary mode
* Action fiction, a type of genre fiction
* Action game, a genre of video game
Film
* Action film, a genre of film
* ''Action'' (1921 film), a film by John Ford
* ''Action'' (1980 fil ...
Births
Full date missing
*1 April –Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (; 1 April 1755, Belley, Ain – 2 February 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of ''The Physiology of Taste'' (''Physiologie du Goût''), gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: " ...
, lawyer, politician and essayist (died 1826
Events January–March
* January 15 – The French newspaper ''Le Figaro'' begins publication in Paris, initially as a weekly.
* January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island o ...
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*16 April – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (died 1842
Events
January–March
* January
** Michael Alexander takes office, as the first appointee to the Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem.
** American medical student William E. Clarke of Berkshire Medical College becomes the first pe ...
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*2 November – Maria Antonia, Austrian Habsburg princess who would later marry the incumbent King Louis XVs grandson, Prince Louis-Auguste (the future Louis XVI). (died 1793
The French Republic introduced the French Revolutionary Calendar starting with the year I.
Events
January–June
* January 7 – The Ebel riot occurs in Sweden.
* January 9 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fl ...
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*16 November – Maximin Isnard
Maximin Isnard (; 16 November 1755 Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes – 12 March 1825 Grasse), French revolutionary, was a dealer in perfumery at Draguignan when he was elected deputy for the ''département'' of the Var to the Legislative Assembly, where ...
, revolutionary (died 1825
Events
January–March
* January 4 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies in Naples and is succeeded by his son, Francis.
* February 3 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula forming westernmost Denmark, becomes a ...
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*17 November – Prince Louis Stanislaus, grandson of the reigning King Louis XV and future Louis XVIII. (died 1824
May 7: The almost completely deaf Beethoven premieres his Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) , Ninth Symphony
Events
January–March
* January 8 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society, ...
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Deaths
Full date missing
*Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Ch ...
, painter, engraver and tapestry designer (born 1686)
*Jacques Caffieri
Jacques Caffieri (25 August 1678, Paris – 25 November 1755, Paris) was a French sculptor, working for the most part in bronze.
Life
Jacques Caffiéri was the fifth son of Philippe Caffieri (1634-1716), the founder of this family of artists. ...
, sculptor (born 1678)
*Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained ...
, composer (born 1689)
*Jean-Pierre Christin
Jean-Pierre Christin (31 May 1683 – 19 January 1755) was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and musician. His proposal in 1743 to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale (from water boiling at 0 degrees and ice melting at 100 degre ...
, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician (born 1683)
*Jean-Louis Lemoyne
Jean-Louis Lemoyne (1665–1755) was a French sculptor whose works were commissioned by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV and Louis XV of France, Louis XV.
His sculptures are featured in major art museums, including the Louvre, the Metropolitan ...
, sculptor (born 1665)
*Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (28 November 1685 Р29 December 1755) was a French novelist influenced by Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, and various pr̩cieuse writers. Villeneuve is particularly noted for her original story of ...
, writer (born c.1695)
*Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer
Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (12 May 1703 – 11 January 1755) was a French composer, harpsichordist, organist, and administrator.Lionel Sawkins and David Fuller"Royer, Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace" Grove Music Online.
Biography
Born in Turin, Royer ...
, composer (born c.1705)
*Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain
Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Ch̢teauvillain (17 July 1748 Р19 May 1755) was a French Duke and nobleman. He died in Paris at the age of 6. He was the ''duc de Ch̢teauvillain'' from birth.
Biography
Jean Marie was born in Paris at the H ...
, nobleman (born 1748)
*Philip François Renault
Philippe François Renault (c. 1686 – 24 April 1755) was a French politician, businessman, explorer, metallurgist, and favorite courtier of King Louis XV of France, who left his native Picardy in 1719 for the Illinois Country, Upper Louisiana ...
, explorer (born c.1686)
See also
References
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