Events from the year 1776 in
France
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Incumbents
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Monarch
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–
Louis XVI
Louis XVI (''Louis-Auguste''; ; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to as ''Citizen Louis Capet'' during the four months just before he was ...
Events
* June–July –
Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans, demonstrates his
steamboat
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Palmipède The Palmipède (from French, meaning web-toed) was an early steamboat created in 1774 by French nobleman, engineer and inventor Marquis Claude de Jouffroy. It was tested in June and July 1776 on the Doubs river between Besançon and Montbéliard and ...
'' on the
Doubs (river).
* August – The guild organisation ''
Marchandes de modes
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'' is founded.
Births
*1 April –
Sophie Germain, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1831)
*4 August –
Pierre-Simon Ballanche
Pierre-Simon Ballanche (4 August 1776 – 12 June 1847) was a French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher, who elaborated a theology of progress that possessed considerable influence in French literary circles in the beginning of the ninetee ...
, writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (died 1847)
Full date missing
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Peter Gilles, composer (died 1839)
Deaths
*4 May –
Jacques Saly
Jacques François Joseph Saly, also known as Jacques Saly (20 June 1717 – 4 May 1776), French-born sculptor who worked in France, Italy and Malta. He is commonly associated with his time in Denmark he served as Director of the Royal Danis ...
, 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
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Augustin Roux Augustin Roux (; 26 January 1726 – 28 June 1776) was a French doctor, encyclopedist and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.
Roux was born in Bordeaux, where he studied medicine. He received his doctorate in 1750 and then came to Par ...
, encyclopedist (born 1726)
*
Marie Durand
Marie Durand (1711–1776), was a French Protestant. She was famously imprisoned in the Tour de Constance (Aigues-Mortes) from 25 August 1730 for attending a Huguenot assembly with her mother, or perhaps because her brother, Pierre Durand, was a we ...
, Protestant martyr (d.
1711
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Events
January–March
* January – Cary's Rebellion: The Lords Proprietor appoint Edward ...
)
See also
References
1770s in France
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