1765 in France

Events from the year 1765 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV

Events

• École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort founded
• The Hennessy cognac house founded

Births

• 11 January – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, librarian (died 1825)
• 7 March – Nicéphore Niépce, inventor, pioneer photographer (died 1833)
• 26 July – Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, marshal (died 1844)
• 4 August – Claire Lacombe, actress and revolutionary
• 1 September – Étienne Pellot, "le Renard Basque", corsair (died 1856)
• 15 October – Joseph Dutens, engineer (died 1848)
• 17 November – Jacques MacDonald, marshal (died 1840)
• 3 December – Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet and painter from Brittany (died 1825)

Full date unknown

• James Smithson, British chemist, mineralogist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States (died 1829 in Italy)

Deaths

• 23 February – Jean Girard, organist (born 1696)
• 15 April – Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon, princess (born 1705)
• 29 June – François Dominique Barreau de Chefdeville, architect (born 1725)
• 5 September – Anne Claude de Caylus, antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters (born 1692)
• 26 September – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, explorer of North America (born 1683)
• 20 December – Louis, Dauphin of France (born 1729)

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