1725 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV

Events

• 16 September - The Treaty of Hanover is signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia.
• 1725–1730 - Freemasonry is established in France as an English import.

Births

• 25 January - Antoine Court de Gébelin, French pastor
• 26 February - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer
• 12 May - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer
• 12 May - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier
• 21 August - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter
• 5 September - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician
• 12 September - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer
• 16 September - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist
• 12 October - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist

Deaths

• 6 April - Étienne Chauvin, French Protestant divine
• 16 September - Antoine V de Gramont, French military leader
• 10 October - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France
• 7 December - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor