1737 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV

Events

• February 20 - Foreign Minister Germain Louis Chauvelin is dismissed by Louis XV's Chief Minister, Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury.
• February 27 - Scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon publish the first study on dendrochronology.
• March 16 - In Paris, representatives sign an armistice bringing an end to the Spanish–Portuguese War (1735–1737).
• April 5 - Jesuit priest Jean-François Régis is canonized as Saint Regis by the Roman Catholic Church under the reign of Pope Clement XII.

Births

• January 18 - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, botanist
• February 12 - Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, salon hostess
• Marie-Catherine de Maraise, businesswoman
• Anne Couppier de Romans, royal mistress
• Marguerite Du Londel, ballerina

Deaths

• June 4 - François Lemoyne, rococo painter
• December 27 - Victor-Marie d'Estrées, marshal