1775 in France
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1774 in France,
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1776 in France.
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Events from the year 1775 in France
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1774 in France,
other events of 1775,
1776 in France.
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Events from the year 1775 in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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January to June
- 20 January - André-Marie AmpèreAndré-Marie AmpèreAndré-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him....
, physicist (d.18361836 in FranceSee also:1835 in France,other events of 1836,1837 in France.----Events from the year 1836 in France.-Births:*14 January - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer .*21 February - Léo Delibes, composer ....
). - 3 February - Maximilien Sebastien FoyMaximilien Sebastien FoyMaximilien Sébastien Foy was a French military leader, statesman and writer.-Revolution:He was born in Ham, Somme, and educated in the military school of La Fere, and made sub-lieutenant of artillery in 1792. He was present at the battles of Valmy and Jemappes, and in 1793 obtained a company, as...
, military leader, statesman and writer (d.18251825 in FranceSee also:1824 in France,other events of 1825,1826 in France.----Events from the year 1825 in France.-Events:*January - Anti-Sacrilege Act, law against blasphemy and sacrilege passed under King Charles X...
). - 3 February - Louis-François, Baron LejeuneLouis-François, Baron LejeuneLouis-François, Baron Lejeune was a French general, painter, and lithographer. His memoirs have frequently been republished and his name is engraved on the Arc de Triomphe.-Life:...
, general, painter and lithographer (d.18481848 in FranceSee also:1847 in France,other events of 1848,1849 in France.----Events from the year 1848 in France.-Events:*22 February - In Paris, revolt erupts against the king Louis Philippe...
). - 30 April - Guillaume Dode de la BrunerieGuillaume Dode de la BrunerieGuillaume Dode de la Brunerie was a Marshal of France. On February 12, 1812, he married the daughter of Marshal Pérignon, Agathe-Virginie.-Early life and French revolutionary wars:...
, Marshal of FranceMarshal of FranceThe Marshal of France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. It is granted to generals for exceptional achievements...
, (d.18511851 in FranceSee also:1850 in France,other events of 1851,1852 in France.----Events from the year 1851 in France.-Events:*1 March - Victor Hugo uses the phrase United States of Europe in a speech to the French national assembly....
). - 10 May - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, Cavalry general (killed in battle) (d.18091809 in FranceSee also:1808 in France,other events of 1809,1810 in France.----Events from the year 1809 in France.-Events:*13 January - Battle of Uclés, French victory over Spanish....
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July to December
- 3 July - Antoine Philippe, Duke of MontpensierAntoine Philippe, Duke of MontpensierLouis Antoine Philippe d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier was a son of Louis Philippe d'Orléans and his duchess Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon...
, younger brother of Louis-Philippe of FranceLouis-Philippe of FranceLouis Philippe I was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 in what was known as the July Monarchy. His father was a duke who supported the French Revolution but was nevertheless guillotined. Louis Philippe fled France as a young man and spent 21 years in exile, including considerable time in the...
(d.18071807 in FranceSee also:1806 in France,other events of 1807,1808 in France.----Events from the year 1807 in France.-Events:*February - Napoleon attacks Russia.*7 February-8 February - Battle of Eylau, indecisive result, but Russian retreat....
). - 23 July - Eugène François VidocqEugène François VidocqEugène François Vidocq was a French criminal and criminalist whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac...
, criminal, later first director of Sûreté NationaleSûretéSûreté is a term used in French speaking countries or regions in the organizational title of a civil police force, especially the detective branch thereof.-France:...
(d.18571857 in FranceSee also:1856 in France,other events of 1857,1858 in France.----Events from the year 1857 in France.-Events:*3 March - France and the United Kingdom formally declare war on China in the Second Opium War.*21 June - Legislative election held....
). - 6 August - Louis-Antoine, Duke of AngoulêmeLouis-Antoine, Duke of AngoulemeLouis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême was the eldest son of Charles X of France and, from 1824 to 1836, the last Dauphin of France...
, the last Dauphin of France (d.18441844 in FranceSee also:1843 in France,other events of 1844,1845 in France.----Events from the year 1844 in France.-Events:*6 August - First Franco-Moroccan War begins....
). - 1 September - Honoré Charles ReilleHonoré Charles ReilleHonoré Charles Michel Joseph Reille was a Marshal of France, born in Antibes.Reille served in the early campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars under Dumouriez and Masséna, whose daughter Victoire he married. In 1800, Reille was appointed commander of the Italian city of Florence...
, Marshal of FranceMarshal of FranceThe Marshal of France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. It is granted to generals for exceptional achievements...
(d.18601860 in FranceSee also:1859 in France,other events of 1860,1861 in France.----Events from the year 1860 in France.-Events:*23 January - Cobden-Chevalier Treaty Free Trade treaty is signed between the United Kingdom and France....
). - 11 November - Jean Guillaume Audinet-ServilleJean Guillaume Audinet-ServilleJean Guillaume Audinet-Serville was a French entomologist, born on November 11, 1775 in Paris. He died on March 27 , 1858 in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre....
, entomologist (d.18581858 in FranceSee also:1857 in France,other events of 1858,1859 in France.----Events from the year 1858 in France.-Events:*14 January - Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders...
). - 30 November - Jean Joseph Antoine de CourvoisierJean Joseph Antoine de CourvoisierJean Joseph Anotine de Couvoisier was a French magistrate and politician.He was born at Besançon on the 30 November 1775. During the revolutionary period he left the country and served in the army of the migrs and later in that of Austria....
, magistrate and politician (d.18351835 in FranceSee also:1834 in France,other events of 1835,1836 in France.----Events from the year 1835 in France.-Events:*The French word for their language changes to français, from françois....
). - 10 December - Jacques-Antoine ManuelJacques-Antoine ManuelJacques-Antoine Manuel was a French lawyer, politician, and noted orator.-Biography:Jacques-Antoine Manuel was born in the hamlet of La Conchette, in Enchastrayes , near Barcelonette. His family included judges and attorneys who had established careers in the Ubaye Valley...
, politician and orator (d.18271827 in FranceSee also:1826 in France,other events of 1827,1828 in France.----Events from the year 1827 in France.-Events:*April - Ottoman Algeria: Husain Dei slaps the French consul, Decalina, on the face, eventually leading to war and French rule in Algeria....
). - 16 December - François-Adrien BoieldieuFrançois-Adrien BoïeldieuFrançois-Adrien Boieldieu was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart".-Biography:...
, composer (d.18341834 in FranceSee also:1833 in France,other events of 1834,1835 in France.----Events from the year 1834 in France.-Events:*26 February - Treaty of Desmichels signed between Abd-el-Kader and France, recognising him as the independent sovereign ruler of the province of Oran in Algeria.*21 June - Legislative...
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- Philippe de GirardPhilippe de GirardPhilippe Henri de Girard was a French engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame in 1810, as well as the name-sake for the town of Żyrardów in Poland. He was also the uncredited inventor of food preservation using tin cans. Girard was born in the village of Lourmarin in the département...
, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame (d.18451845 in FranceSee also:1844 in France,other events of 1845,1846 in France.----Events from the year 1845 in France.-Events:*12 October - The Société Mathématique de France was founded....
). - Charles Berny d'OuvilléCharles Berny d'OuvilléClaude Charles Antoine Berny d'Ouvillé or Charles Berny born in 1775 in Clermont and death in 1842.French miniaturist, he made exhibitions of his paintings in the Salon de Paris from 1802 to 1833, one of this portraits the one of the famous actress Émilie Leverd...
, miniaturist (d.18421842 in FranceSee also:1841 in France,other events of 1842,1843 in France.----Events from the year 1842 in France.-Events:*8 May - Versailles train crash at Meudon, results in the deaths of at least 55 passengers.*9 July - Legislative election held....
). - François PéronFrançois PéronFrançois Auguste Péron was a French naturalist and explorer. He is credited with the first use of the term anthropology.-Explorations:...
, naturalistNatural historyNatural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
and explorer (d.18101810 in FranceSee also:1809 in France,other events of 1810,1811 in France.----Events from the year 1810 in France.-Events:*6 January - Treaty of Paris ends war between France and Sweden....
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