1755 in France

Events from the year 1755 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XV

Events

• Opéra national de Montpellier established
• Action of 8 June 1755

Births

• 1 April – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician and essayist (died 1826)
• 16 April – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (died 1842)
• 2 November – Maria Antonia, Austrian Habsburg princess who would later marry the incumbent King Louis XVs grandson, Prince Louis-Auguste (the future Louis XVI). (died 1793)
• 16 November – Maximin Isnard, revolutionary (died 1825)
• 17 November – Prince Louis Stanislaus, grandson of the reigning King Louis XV and future Louis XVIII. (died 1824)

Deaths

• 11 January – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, composer (born c.1705)
• 19 January – Jean-Pierre Christin, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician (born 1683)
• 24 April – Philip François Renault, explorer (born c.1686)
• 30 April – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, painter, engraver and tapestry designer (born 1686)
• 19 May – Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain, nobleman (born 1748)
• 28 October – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer (born 1689)
• 25 November – Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (born 1678)
• 29 December – Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, writer (born c.1695)

Full date unknown

• Jean-Louis Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1665)

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