1730 in France

Events from the year 1730 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV

Events

Births

• 7 March – Baron de Breteuil, last prime minister of the French monarchy (d. 1807)
• 10 July - Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, French Freemason (d. 1824)
• 26 July – Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)

Deaths

• 20 March – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
• 7 July – Olivier Levasseur, French pirate
• 18 July – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
• 15 October – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)
• 21 November – François de Troy, French portrait artist (b. 1645)

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