1764 in France
Events from the year 1764 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Louis XV
Events
- 15 March - The day after his return to Paris from a nine-year mission, French explorer and scholar Anquetil Du Perron presents a complete copy of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Zend Avesta, to the Bibliothèque Royale.
- 21 April - Residents of French Louisiana are informed for the first time that they will come under Spanish rule as the result of a secret agreement of 13 November 1762, whereby France has ceded all of its North American territory west of the Mississippi River.
- The government withdraws wartime taxes.
- Beast of Gévaudan first appears.
- Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse perfect a commercial recipe for Chartreuse (liqueur).
Births
- 11 February - Joseph Chénier, poet
- 13 April - Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal
- 26 April - Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint, aristocrat and civic administrator
- 3 May - Princess Élisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI
- 13 August - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, general
- 7 December
- * Pierre Prévost, panorama painter
- * Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Marshal of France
Full date unknown
- Sophie de Condorcet, political hostess and feminist
Deaths
- 15 April - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV
- 11 September - Countess Dash, writer
- 12 September - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer
- 22 October - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer and violinist
- 23 October - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, naval officer