Events from the year 1784 in France

Incumbents

* Monarch – Louis XVI

Events

Science * Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism appointed in Paris.

Arts and culture

Opera

* 18 September – '' Dardanus'', opera by Antonio Sacchini, was first performed at Versailles

Theatre

* ''

Le Bon Père ''Le Bon Père'' ( en, The Good Father) is a one act comedy by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. It was first performed by the Comédie Italienne in 1784. ''Le Bon Père'' is the last of a trilogy of plays called "The Arlequinades" that tell th ...

'', comedy by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, first performed by the Comédie Italienne in Paris in 1784

Births

* 6 October – Charles Dupin, mathematician (died 1873)

Deaths

* 29 January –

Abbé François Blanchet Abbé François Blanchet (26 January 1707 – 29 January 1784) was a French littérateur, or Intellectual. He spent his younger years in a Jesuit (Society of Jesus) order. Blanchet was the author of ''Apologues and Tales'', a highly esteemed work. ...

, intellectual (born 1707) * 15 February –

Pierre Macquer Pierre-Joseph Macquer (9 October 1718 – 15 February 1784) was an influential French chemist. He is known for his ''Dictionnaire de chymie'' (1766). He was also involved in practical applications, to medicine and industry, such as the French de ...

, chemist (born 1718) * 7 March – Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi, botanist and poet (born 1734) * 30 March –

Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre Emanuel de Croÿ-Solre, Duke of Croy (23 June 1718 - 30 March 1784) was a French soldier of the 18th century who attained the rank of Marshal of France. The only son of Philippe-Alexandre-Emmanuel de Croy, he was born a prince of the Holy Roman ...

, military officer (born 1718) * 30 July – Denis Diderot, philosopher (born 1713) * 1 September – Jean-François Séguier, botanist and astronomer (born 1703) * 1 November –

Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan Jean-Jacques Lefranc (also Le Franc), Marquis de Pompignan (10 August 1709 – 1 November 1784) was a French man of letters and erudition, who published a considerable output of theatrical work, poems, literary criticism, and polemics; treatises o ...

, man of letters and erudition (born 1709)

References

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