Events from the year 1737 in France.
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Incumbents
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edit- February 20 – Foreign Minister Germain Louis Chauvelin is dismissed by Louis XV's Chief Minister, Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury.
- February 27 – Scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon publish the first study on dendrochronology.[2]
- March 16 – In Paris, representatives sign an armistice bringing an end to the Spanish–Portuguese War (1735–1737).
- April 5 – Jesuit priest Jean-François Régis is canonized as Saint Regis by the Roman Catholic Church under the reign of Pope Clement XII.
Births
edit- January 18 – Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, botanist (d. 1814)
- February 12 – Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, salon hostess (d. 1794)
- Marie-Catherine de Maraise, businesswoman (d. 1822)
- Anne Couppier de Romans, royal mistress (d. 1808)
- Marguerite Du Londel, ballerina (d. 1804 in Sweden)
Deaths
edit- June 4 – François Lemoyne, rococo painter (b. 1688)
- December 27 – Victor-Marie d'Estrées, marshal (b. 1660)
See also
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References
edit- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ De la cause de l'excentricité des couches ligneuses qu'on apperçoit quand on coupe horisontalement le tronc d'un arbre.