1771 in France

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Events from the year 1771 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XV

3 January – Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon, diplomat and historian (died 1841).

19 June – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, mathematician and logician (died 1859)

18 August – Louis-François Bertin de Vaux, journalist (died 1842)

20 February – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist, astronomer and chronobiologist (born 1678)

27 December – Henri Pitot, hydraulic engineer, inventor of the pitot tube (born 1695)

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