1768 in France

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Events from the year 1768 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XV

15 May – Treaty of Versailles

8 October – Battle of Borgo

1768–1769 – French conquest of Corsica

4 September – François-René de Chateaubriand, writer, politician, diplomat, and historian (died 1848).

Rosalie Lamorlière (died 1848)

Joseph Fourier, mathematician and physicist (died 1830)

Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Marshall of France (died 1813)

Jean II Restout, painter (born 1692)

Antoine Deparcieux, mathematician (born 1703)

Élisabeth de Haulteterre, composer and violinist (fl. 1737)

Michel Blavet, composer and flutist (born 1700)

Pierre Simon Fournier, punch-cutter, typefounder and typographic theoretician (born 1712)

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