1753 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XV

Events

• The chemical element bismuth discovered by Claude François Geoffroy

Births

• 4 July -Jean-Pierre Blanchard, inventor, pioneer in balloon flight
• 25 July - Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, military officer in Spanish colonial service, Viceroy of the Río de la Plata
• 20 November - Louis-Alexandre Berthier, maréchal de France
• 23 November - Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas, military officer

Full date unknown

• Pierre Cuillier-Perron, military adventurer
• Charles Julien Fanneau de Lahorie, French sailor

Deaths

• 18 June - Claude François Geoffroy, chemist
• 10 November - Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, naval officer
• 10 December - Claude Gros de Boze, scholar and numismatist