1746 in France
Events from the year 1746 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- May 9 - Voltaire, on being admitted into the Académie française, gives a discours de réception in which he criticizes Boileau's poetry
- June 16 - Battle of Piacenza: Austrian forces defeat the French and Spanish
- August 12 - Battle of Rottofreddo: French forces repel an Austrial attack before withdrawing
- October 11 - Battle of Rocoux: French forces defeat the allied Austrian, British, Hanoverian and Dutch
- Jean-Étienne Guettard presents the first mineralogical map of France to the Académie des sciences
- DMC (Dollfus-Mieg & Cie.) established as a textile spinning company in Mulhouse by Jean-Henri Dollfus
Births
- January - Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, writer, harpist and educator
- March 7 - André Michaux, botanist
- March 30 - Francisco Goya, Spanish-born painter
- May 5 - Jean-Nicolas Pache, politician
- May 9 - Gaspard Monge, mathematician and geometer
- July 30 - Louise du Pierry, astronomer
- November 12 - Jacques Charles, physician
- Victor d'Hupay, philosopher and writer
Deaths
- February 22 - Guillaume Coustou the Elder, sculptor and academician
- March 20 - Nicolas de Largillière, painter
- July 3 - Joseph-François Lafitau, Jesuit missionary and naturalist
- August 11 - Nicolas-Hubert de Mongault, ecclesiastic and writer
- Jacques Bonne-Gigault de Bellefonds, archbishop
- Michel Fourmont, antiquarian, scholar and forger
- Joseph d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, military officer in Acadia