Events from the year 1759 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
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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
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Étienne de Silhouette
Étienne de Silhouette (5 July 1709 – 20 January 1767) was a French Ancien Régime Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV.
Life
Sometimes said to be akin to the next Niccolò Machiavelli, he was born at Limoges where his father Chevalie ...
serves as Controller-General
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Battle of Bergen
Births
Full date missing
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Jacques Desjardin
Jacques Desjardin or Jacques Jardin or Jacques Desjardins; (9 February 175911 February 1807) enlisted in the French royal army as a young man and eventually became a sergeant. During the first years of the French Revolutionary Wars he enjoyed very ...
, military officer (died 1807)
Deaths
Full date missing
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Lambert-Sigisbert Adam
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (10 October 170012 May 1759) was a lorrain sculptor born in 1700 in Nancy. The eldest son of sculptor Jacob-Sigisbert Adam, he was known as Adam l’aîné ("the elder") to distinguish him from his two sculptor brothers Ni ...
, sculptor (born 1700)
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Pierre Louis Maupertuis
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (; ; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the ...
, mathematician and philosopher (born 1698)
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Louis de Caix d'Hervelois
Louis de Caix d'Hervelois (; c. 1670 in France – 18 October 1759 in France) was a composer of chamber music.
Biography
Caix d'Hervelois wrote music almost exclusively for the viol. Most of his other works exist as transcriptions from his viol ...
, composer (born c.1670)
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Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint-Veran (28 February 1712 – 14 September 1759) was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War (whose North American th ...
, military officer (born 1712)
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Antoine Magnol, physician and botanist (born 1676)
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Marie Louise Trichet
Marie Louise Trichet, also known as ''Marie-Louise de Jésus'' (1684–1759), was a French Catholic figure who, with Louis de Montfort, founded the Congregation of religious women called Daughters of Wisdom and since the age of seventeen devoted ...
, Catholic figure (born 1684)
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Antoine Gaubil
Antoine Gaubil (b. at Gaillac, Tarn (department), Tarn, 14 July 1689; d. at Beijing, 24 July 1759) was French Jesuit missionary to China.
Life
He entered the Society of Jesus, 13 September 1704, was sent to China, where he arrived 26 June 1722. ...
, Jesuit missionary (born 1689)
See also
References
1750s in France
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