Events from the year 1755 in France
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Events edit
- Opéra national de Montpellier established
- Action of 8 June 1755
Births edit
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- 1 April – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician and essayist (died 1826)[2]
- 16 April – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (died 1842)[3]
- 2 November – Maria Antonia, Austrian Habsburg princess who would later marry the incumbent King Louis XVs grandson, Prince Louis-Auguste (the future Louis XVI). (died 1793)
- 16 November – Maximin Isnard, revolutionary (died 1825)
- 17 November – Prince Louis Stanislaus, grandson of the reigning King Louis XV and future Louis XVIII. (died 1824)
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- Jean-Baptiste Oudry, painter, engraver and tapestry designer (born 1686)
- Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (born 1678)
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer (born 1689)
- Jean-Pierre Christin, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician (born 1683)
- Jean-Louis Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1665)
- Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, writer (born c.1695)
- Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, composer (born c.1705)
- Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain, nobleman (born 1748)
- Philip François Renault, explorer (born c.1686)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 4 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ Magill, Frank N. (1999). The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 4. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 1376. ISBN 978-0-89356-316-5.
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