1784 in France

Events from the year 1784 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XVI

Events

Science

• Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism appointed in Paris.

Arts and culture

Opera

• 18 September – Dardanus, opera by Antonio Sacchini, was first performed at Versailles

Theatre

• Le Bon Père, comedy by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, first performed by the Comédie Italienne in Paris in 1784

Births

• 6 October – Charles Dupin, mathematician (died 1873)

Deaths

• 29 January – Abbé François Blanchet, intellectual (born 1707)
• 15 February – Pierre Macquer, chemist (born 1718)
• 7 March – Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi, botanist and poet (born 1734)
• 30 March – Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre, military officer (born 1718)
• 30 July – Denis Diderot, philosopher (born 1713)
• 1 September – Jean-François Séguier, botanist and astronomer (born 1703)
• 1 November – Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, man of letters and erudition (born 1709)

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