1777 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XVI

Events

• 3 June - Treaty of Aranjuez

Births

• 31 January - Jean-Pierre Vibert, rosarian
• 12 February
• * Bernard Courtois, chemist
• * Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, poet
• 3 March - Adolphe Dureau de la Malle, geographer, naturalist, historian and artist
• 3 December - Juliette Récamier, saloniste
• Auguste, comte de La Ferronays, politician

Deaths

• 27 January - Hubert de Brienne, naval commander
• 20 March - Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart, cardinal
• 7 May
• *Charles de Brosses, writer
• *Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, officer of the marines and colonial administrator for New France
• 23 August - Charles-Joseph Natoire, painter
• 13 July - Guillaume Coustou the Younger, sculptor
• 6 October - Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, saloniste