1741 in France

A list of events from the year 1741 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch - Louis XV

Events

The cavalry unit Régiment des Hussards de Saxe formed

Births

Full date unknown

Antoine-François Callet, painter

Deaths

17 March - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, poet and dramatist
18 June – François Pourfour du Petit, anatomist
11 August - Marie Anne de Bourbon, noblewoman
25 August – Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard, singer
7 September – Henri Desmarets, composer
21 December – Bernard de Montfaucon, monk and scholar

Full date unknown

Françoise Prévost, ballerina