1774 in France

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Events from the year 1774 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XV; Louis XVI

10 May – Louis XV of France dies, and Louis XVI becomes the new king

9 March – Louis Auguste Say, economist and businessman, founder of sugar refineries in Nantes and Paris (died 1840)

4 February – Charles Marie de La Condamine, explorer, geographer, and mathematician (born 1701).

10 May – Louis XV, King of France and Navarre from 1715 (born 1710)

30 November – Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, economist and statistician (born 1695)

16 December – François Quesnay, economist (born 1994)

29 December – Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare (born 1757)

Justine Paris, courtesan and madam (born 1705)

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