1741 in France

A list of events from the year 1741 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XV

Events

• The cavalry unit Régiment des Hussards de Saxe formed

Births

Full date unknown

• Antoine-François Callet, painter (died 1823)

Deaths

• 17 March – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, poet and dramatist (born 1671)
• 18 June – François Pourfour du Petit, anatomist (born 1664)
• 11 August – Marie Anne de Bourbon, noblewoman (born 1697)
• 25 August – Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard, singer (born 1669)
• 7 September – Henri Desmarets, composer (born 1661)
• 21 December – Bernard de Montfaucon, monk and scholar (born 1655)

Full date unknown

• Françoise Prévost, ballerina (born c.1680)

See also

References