1768 in France

Events from the year 1768 in France.

Incumbents

1 March – King Louis XV decrees that all cities and towns in the kingdom will be required to post house numbering on all residential buildings, primarily to facilitate the forced quartering of troops in citizens' homes
15 May – French conquest of Corsica: Treaty of Versailles – The island of Corsica is ceded to France by the Republic of Genoa
16 September – Louis XV appoints RenÃÂ© de Maupeou as Chancellor (an office he will hold until 1790) and orders him to crush the judicial opposition
8 October – French conquest of Corsica: Battle of Borgo – French forces are defeated by Corsicans
29 October – French colonists in Louisiana refuse to accept the colony's acquisition by Spain and begin an uprising that forces Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa to flee

The Petit Trianon, originally designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel for Madame de Pompadour, is completed in the park of the Palace of Versailles and inaugurated by Louis XV for Marie Antoinette

3 March – Rosalie LamorliÃÂ¨re, royal servant (died 1848)
21 March – Joseph Fourier, mathematician and physicist (died 1830)
27 July – Charlotte Corday, murderer of Jean-Paul Marat (executed 1793)
6 August – Jean-Baptiste BessiÃÂ¨res, Marshall of France (died 1813)
4 September – FranÃÂ§ois-RenÃÂ© de Chateaubriand, writer, politician, diplomat and historian (died 1848)

1 January – Jean II Restout, painter (born 1692)
2 September – Antoine Deparcieux, mathematician (born 1703)
8 October – Pierre Simon Fournier, punch-cutter, typefounder and typographic theoretician (born 1712)
28 October – Michel Blavet, composer and flutist (born 1700)