1766 in France

Events from the year 1766 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XV

Events

On 3 March 1766 Louis XV gave a speech to the Parlement of Paris addressing his problems with the actions of the magistrates.

Art

• Saint Peter Attempting to Walk on Water, oil painting by François Boucher

Births

• 8 July – Dominique Jean Larrey, surgeon and military doctor(died 1842)
• 6 August – Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré, hydrographic engineer and cartographer (died 1854)
• 7 October – Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga, military officer (died 1849)
• 14 December – Louis-François Bertin, journalist and publisher (died 1841)

Full date unknown

• Thomas Henry (patron of the arts), painter and patron of the arts (died 1836)

Deaths

• 19 January – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, decorator and architect (born 1695)
• 9 May – Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, military officer (born 1702)
• 24 June – Adrien Maurice de Noailles, aristocrat and soldier (born 1678)
• 7 November – Jean-Marc Nattier, painter (born 1685)

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