1731 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XV

Events

• 9 April - The Diocese of Dijon established

Births

• 18 June - Jean-Louis de Boubers, printer, publisher and bookseller
• 24 July - Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, chemist
• 12 October - Jean-Baptiste Blanchard. Jesuit and educator

Full date unknown

• André-Charles Cailleau, book publisher

Deaths

• 6 January - Étienne François Geoffroy, physician and chemist
• 21 February - Blaise Gisbert, Jesuit rhetorician
• 11 July - Jean-François Leriget de La Faye, diplomat
• 3 August - Charles Saint-Yves, ophthalmologist
• 26 December - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, author