1776 in France

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Events from the year 1776 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XVI

1 April – Sophie Germain, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1831)

4 August – Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (died 1847)

Peter Gilles, composer (died 1839).

4 May – Jacques Saly, sculptor (born 1717)

25 August – Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix, writer and playwright (born 1698)

17 October – Pierre François le Courayer, writer (born 1681)

Augustin Roux, encyclopedist (born 1726)

Marie Durand, protestant martyr (d. 1711)

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