1770 in France
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Events from the year 1770 in France
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 16 May – 14-year-old Marie Antoinette of Austria marries Louis-Auguste (who in 1774 becomes King Louis XVI of France) at the Palace of Versailles
- 20 May – A stampede at a celebration of the newly wedded Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste in Paris kills more than a hundred people[2]
- 3 June – The 7.5 Mw Port-au-Prince earthquake affects the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 250 or more
- 14 June–3 October – Charles Messier observes Lexell's Comet as it passes closer to Earth than any other in recorded history[3]
- 7 December – Louis XV issues the Edict of December, dismissing rebellious magistrates of the Parlements of Paris and the other 13 provinces[4][5]
- 24 December – César Gabriel de Choiseul is dismissed from his position as Secretary of the Navy by the king[6]
- Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles established
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange proves Bachet's conjecture
- The Baron d'Holbach's (anonymous) materialist work Le Système de la Nature ou Des Loix du Monde Physique et du Monde Moral is published
Culture
[edit]- 20 January – The new Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), the first purpose-built opera house in Paris, designed by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, is inaugurated with a performance of Rameau's Zoroastre[7][8]
- 16 May – The new Opéra royal de Versailles, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, is inaugurated.[9]
- 27 October – First performance of the opera Les deux avares, written by André Grétry, at Fontainebleau
- December – The Library of the Sorbonne in Paris is opened to the public[10]
- The Théâtre Déjazet is established in Paris by the Comte d'Artois
- Anne Vallayer-Coster is admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the age of 26[11]
Births
[edit]- 5 February – Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (died 1847)
- 21 February – Georges Mouton, Marshal of France (died 1838)
- 2 March – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (died 1826)
- 25 March – Antoine Richepanse, revolutionary general (died 1802)
- 10 May – Louis-Nicolas Davout, Marshal of France (died 1823)
- 18 December – Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France, Minister of War (died 1840)
Deaths
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- 14 March – Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet, clergyman and moralist (born 1697)
- 19 April – Esprit Antoine Blanchard, musician (born 1696)[12]
- 25 April – Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (born 1700)
- 30 May – François Boucher, painter (born 1703)
- 3 August – Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist and apothecary (born 1703)
- 28 November – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, historian (born 1685)
- 15 December – Pierre-Joseph Alary, ecclesiastic and writer (born 1689)
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Louis XV (1710-1774)". History. BBC. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
- ^ Delalex, Hélène; Maral, Alexandre; Milovanovic, Nicolas (2016). Marie-Antoinette. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. p. 25. ISBN 9781606064832.
- ^ "D/1770 L1 (Lexell)". Gary W. Kronk's Cometography. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
- ^ Loft, Leonore (2002). Passion, Politics and Philosophie: rediscovering J.-P. Brissot. Westport, Ct: Greenwood. p. 55.
- ^ Van Kley, Dale K. (1996). The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: from Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 249.
- ^ Strugnell, Antony (2012). Diderot’s Politics: a study of the Evolution of Diderot’s Political Thought after the Encyclopedie. Nijhof. p. 123.
- ^ Pitou, Spire (1983). The Paris Opéra: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers and Performers: Genesis and Glory, 1671–1715. Westport, Ct: Greenwood. p. 26. ISBN 9780313214202.
- ^ Mead, Christopher Curtis (1991). Charles Garnier's Paris Opera. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-262-13275-6.
- ^ Praefcke, Andreas. "Versailles: Théâtre Gabriel / Opéra Royal". Carthalia. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
- ^ Stam, David H. (2001). International Dictionary of Library Histories. London: Routledge. p. 881. ISBN 978-1-136-77785-1.
- ^ McKinven, Mary Jane (June 2002). Stunning Still Lifes by Anne Vallayer-Coster, Foremost 18th-Century Painter in Court of Marie-Antoinette. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Blanchard, Esprit Joseph Antoine". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 385. Retrieved 2015-08-28.