1783 in France

Events from the year 1783 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XVI

Events

• 3 September Treaty of Paris
• 21 November First manned hot air balloon flight

Births

• 1 February – André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin, lawyer and politician (died 1865)
• 5 July – Charles-Louis Havas, writer and founder of Agence France-Presse (died 1858).
• 24 July – Frédéric de Lafresnaye, ornithologist (died 1861).
• 19 December – Charles Julien Brianchon, mathematician and chemist (died 1864).

Deaths

• 27 September – Étienne Bézout, mathematician (born 1730)
• 5 December – Sophie d'Artois, princess (born 1776)
• Marguerite Gourdan, brothel madam (born year unknown)

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