1773 in France

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Events from the year 1773 in France

Incumbents

24 February – Decision of the council reorganizing recovery of the poll tax on the bourgeoisie of Paris. Rents are recorded by Intendant Bertier de Sauvigny and the tax is calculated proportionally; the tax yield increases from 850,000 livres to 1,400,000 livres.^[2]
7 April or 24 May – Freemasonry in France: The 200 masonic lodges are reorganized within the Grand Orient de France in a vast relational system hierarchized by affiliation.^[3]
9 May – Hunger riots in Bordeaux.^[4]
13 October – Astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 31 million light-years, in the constellation Canes Venatici.
Lagrange presents his work on the secular equation of the Moon to the Académie française, introducing the idea of the potential of a body. He also publishes on the attraction of ellipsoids and other mathematical matters.
Hilaire Rouelle discovers urea.
Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau proposes the use of "muriatic acid gas" (hydrogen chloride) for fumigation of buildings.
Antoine Baumé publishes his textbook Chymie expérimentale et raisonnée in Paris.

6 April – Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais, genealogist (died 1842)
2 September – Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont, Marshal of France (died 1846)^[5]
6 September – François Fournier-Sarlovèze, military officer (died 1827)
14 September – Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes, military officer (died 1822 at sea)
6 October – Louis Philippe I "Citizen King" of the French (died 1850)^[6]
12 December – Robert Surcouf, privateer, businessman and slave-trader (died 1827)

^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
^ Touzery, Mireille (1994). L’invention de l’impôt sur le revenu: la taille tarifée 1715-1789. Vincennes: Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique. ISBN 978-2-8218-2850-6.
^ Bauer, Alain; Mollier, Pierre (2012). Le Grand Orient de France. Que sais-je?. Paris: PUF. p. 14. ISBN 978-2-13-061447-0.
^ Histoire des maires de Bordeaux. Bordeaux: Les Dossiers d'Aquitaine. 2008. p. 234. ISBN 978-2-84622-171-9.
^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Bourmont, Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisnes". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
^ Antonetti, Guy (1994). Louis-Philippe. Fayard. p. PT38. ISBN 978-2-213-65288-7.