1731 in France

Events from the year 1731 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XV

Events

• 9 April – The Diocese of Dijon established

Births

• 18 June – Jean-Louis de Boubers, printer, publisher and bookseller (died 1804)
• 24 July – Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, chemist (died 1799)
• 12 October – Jean-Baptiste Blanchard. Jesuit and educator (died 1797)

Full date unknown

• André-Charles Cailleau, book publisher (died 1798)

Deaths

• 6 January – Étienne François Geoffroy, physician and chemist (born 1672)
• 21 February – Blaise Gisbert, Jesuit rhetorician (born 1657)
• 11 July – Jean-François Leriget de La Faye, diplomat (born 1674)
• 3 August – Charles Saint-Yves, ophthalmologist (born 1667)
• 26 December – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, author (born 1672)

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