Events from the year 1774 in France
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Incumbents
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edit- 10 May – Louis XV of France dies,[1] and Louis XVI becomes the new king[2]
- Louis XVI faces empty treasury
- division of three estates
Births
edit- 9 March – Louis Auguste Say, economist and businessman, founder of sugar refineries in Nantes and Paris (died 1840)
Deaths
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- 4 February – Charles Marie de La Condamine, explorer, geographer, and mathematician (born 1701)[3]
- 24 April – Sara Banzet, educator and diarist (b. 1745)
- 10 May – Louis XV, King of France from 1715 (born 1710)[1]
- 30 November – Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, economist and statistician (born 1695)
- 16 December – François Quesnay, economist (born 1694)
- 29 December – Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare (born 1757)
- date unknown:
- Justine Paris, courtesan and madam (born 1705)
- Catherine Michelle de Maisonneuve, editor and writer
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b c "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ a b "BBC - History - King Louis XVI". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1916). "Condamine, Charles Marie de la". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 5 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 169. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
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