1760 in France

Events from the year 1760 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XV

Events

• 14 July – Battle of Emsdorf
• 31 July – Battle of Warburg
• 15 October – Battle of Kloster Kampen
• Claimed – Foundation of Lombart Chocolate company

Births

• 10 January – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, painter (died 1832)
• 5 February – Charlotte de Robespierre (died 1834)
• 2 March – Camille Desmoulins, journalist and politician during the French Revolution (executed 1794)
• 30 September – Madame de Saint-Laurent (died 1830)
• 6 October – Victoire Babois, poet and writer of elegies (died 1839)
• 20 October – Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth, soldier and politician (died 1829)

Deaths

• 3 April – Jacob B. Winslow, anatomist (born 1669)
• 11 April – Louis de Silvestre, painter (born 1675)
• 10 June – Louis-Gui de Guérapin de Vauréal, ecclesiastic and diplomat (born 1688)
• 13 September – Guy Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, nobleman (born 1683)
• 14 November – François Colin de Blamont, violinist and composer (born 1690)

Full date unknown

• Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, engraver, portraitist, illustrator and printmaker (born 1702)
• François Bouvard, composer (born c.1684)
• Claude Moët, wine merchant (born 1683)

See also

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