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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)
See also
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