1729 in France

Events from the year 1729 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XV

Events

• 9 November – France signed The Treaty of Seville with Britain and Spain bringing an end to the Anglo-Spanish War started in 1727.

Births

• 18 April – Gaétan Vestris, dancer (died 1808)
• 12 November – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, admiral and explorer (died 1811)
• 4 September – Dauphin Louis, Son of Louis XV (d. 1765)

Full date unknown

• Jean-Baptiste Marie de Piquet, Marquess of Méjanes, aristocrat and book collector (died 1786)

Deaths

• 26 March – Simon de la Loubère, diplomat, mathematician and poet (born 1642)
• 27 June – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist and composer (b. 1665)
• 18 October – Nicolas Ravot d'Ombreval, magistrate (born 1680)
• 1 December – Giacomo F. Maraldi, astronomer and mathematician (born 1665)
• 26 December – Honoré Tournély, Catholic theologian (born 1658)

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