Events from the year 1783 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
* 3 September
Treaty of Paris Treaty of Paris may refer to one of many treaties signed in Paris, France:
Treaties
1200s and 1300s
* Treaty of Paris (1229), which ended the Albigensian Crusade
* Treaty of Paris (1259), between Henry III of England and Louis IX of France
* Trea ...
* 21 November
First manned hot air balloon flight
Births
* 1 February –
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin (1 February 17838 November 1865), commonly called Dupin the Elder, was a French advocate, president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative Assembly.
Dupin was born at Varzy, in the Nièvre ''départe ...
, lawyer and politician (died 1865)
* 5 July –
Charles-Louis Havas
Charles-Louis Havas (5 July 1783 – 21 May 1858) was a French writer, translator, and founder of the first news agency Agence Havas (whose descendants are the Agence France-Presse (AFP) and the advertising firm Havas).
Biography
Havas was bor ...
, writer and founder of
Agence France-Presse (died
1858
Events
January–March
* January –
** Benito Juárez (1806–1872) becomes Liberal President of Mexico. At the same time, conservatives install Félix María Zuloaga (1813–1898) as president.
** William I of Prussia becomes regen ...
).
* 24 July –
Frédéric de Lafresnaye
Baron Nöel Frédéric Armand André de Lafresnaye (24 July 1783 – 14 July 1861) was a French ornithologist and collector.
Lafresnaye was born into an aristocratic family at Chateau de La Fresnaye in Falaise, Normandy. He took an early inte ...
, ornithologist (died
1861
Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry.
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City.
** The first stea ...
).
* 19 December –
Charles Julien Brianchon
Charles Julien Brianchon (19 December 1783 – 29 April 1864) was a French mathematician and chemist.
Life
He entered into the École Polytechnique in 1804 at the age of eighteen, and studied under Monge, graduating first in his class in 1808 ...
, mathematician and chemist (died
1864).
Deaths
* 27 September –
Étienne Bézout
Étienne Bézout (; 31 March 1730 – 27 September 1783) was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Avon (near Fontainebleau), France.
Work
In 1758 Bézout was elected an adjoint in mechanics of the ...
, mathematician (born 1730)
* 5 December –
Sophie d'Artois, princess (born 1776)
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Marguerite Gourdan
Marguerite Gourdan, née ''Marguerite Alexandrine Ernestine Stock'' (c. 1730 in Béziers – 28 September 1783 in Paris) was a French brothel owner and procurer in 18th-century Paris. Her brothel was the most exclusive in Paris during that age, ...
, brothel madam (born year unknown)
See also
References
1780s in France
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