1748 in France

Events from the year 1748 in France.

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Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV

Events

• April – Maastricht is conquered by Maurice de Saxe.
• 24 April – War of the Austrian Succession: A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) with the intent to conclude the war.
• 18 October – War of the Austrian Succession: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war. Great Britain obtains Madras, in India, from France, in exchange for the fortress of Louisbourg in Canada.
• Louis XV of France authorizes a 5% income tax on every individual regardless of social status; the Parlement of Paris protests.

Births

• 12 April – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, botanist (d. 1836)
• 27 April – Pierre-Louis Ginguené, author (d. 1815)
• 3 May – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, cleric and constitutional theorist (d. 1836)
• 7 May – Olympe de Gouges, playwright and political activist (guillotined 1793)
• 10 May – Louis Pierre Vieillot, ornithologist (d. 1831)
• 30 June – Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, astronomer (d. 1845)
• 30 August – Jacques-Louis David, historical painter (d. 1825)
• 9 December – Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist (d. 1822)