1736 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV

Events

• May 26 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
• June 19 – French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in Meänmaa of Finland.

Births

• February 19 – Simon Charles Miger, engraver
• March 21 – Claude Nicolas Ledoux, neoclassical architect
• June 14 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist
• June 22 – Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy, painter primarily of naval scenes
• August 26 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, geologist
• September 15 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, astronomer
• November 30 – Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, painter and etcher
• Honoré Blanc, gunsmith

Deaths

• April 2 – Étienne Allegrain, topographical painter
• April 24 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general
• July 25 – Jean-Baptiste Pater, rococo painter
• September 26 – Louise Diane d'Orléans, youngest child of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans
• November 2 – Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, duke