1747 in France

Events from the year 1747 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XV

Events

• 2 July – Battle of Lauffeld
• 19 July – Battle of Assietta

Births

• 23 January – Joséphine Leroux, Ursuline nun (died 1794)
• 13 April – Armand Louis de Gontaut, military officer and politician (died 1793)
• 29 May – Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, admiral (died 1812)
• 2 July – Rose Bertin, hatmaker and dressmaker (died 1813)

Deaths

• 7 March – Nicholas Mahudel, antiquarian (born 1673)
• 6 June – Jean-Baptiste Barrière, cellist and composer (born 1707)
• 9 November – Philibert Orry, statesman (born 1689)

Full date unknown

• Antoine Monnoyer, painter (born 1670)

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