Events from the year 1759 in France
Monarch – Louis XV
4 March–20 November – Étienne de Silhouette serves as Controller-General
13 April – Battle of Bergen
Jacques Desjardin, military officer (died 1807)
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, sculptor (born 1700).
Pierre Louis Maupertuis, mathematician and philosopher (born 1698)
Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, composer (born c.1670)
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, military officer (born 1712)
Antoine Magnol, physician and botanist (born 1676)
Marie Louise Trichet, Catholic figure (born 1684)
Antoine Gaubil, Jesuit missionary (born 1689)
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