1767 in France
Events from the year 1767 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 24 March - Spain acquires control of the Falkland Islands from France, compensating Admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville for the money spent on the construction of the settlement at Fort Saint Louis.
- 19 June - The last of several animals to be known over the past 3 years as the Beast of Gévaudan is shot.
- 24 October - Several anti-Jewish regulations in place since 1661, are repealed by the King's Council. While Jewish merchants are still prohibited from owning their own retail stores, they are allowed to sell merchandise on credit to gentile merchants at legal interest rates, to legally enforce debts, and to sell jewelry.
Popular culture
Opera
- 24 November - Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège, a three-act operatic tragédie lyrique, composed by François-André Danican Philidor, was first performed by the Paris Opera at the Salle des Machines in the Palais des Tuileries in Paris.
Births
- 27 February - Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, statesman
- 25 March - Joachim Murat, general, Marshal of France, and King of Naples
- 4 April - Constance Marie Charpentier, painter
- 9 April - Joseph Fiévée, journalist, novelist, essayist and playwright
- 21 April - Étienne-Denis Pasquier, Chancelier de France
- 25 April - Nicolas Oudinot, Marshal of France
- 19 June - Joseph François Michaud, historian and publicist
- 27 June - Alexis Bouvard, astronomer
- 25 August - Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, politician during the French Revolution
- 1 October - Victor Marie du Pont, diplomat
- 15 October - Gabriel Richard, Roman Catholic priest, second founder of the city of Detroit, MI, USA, and co-founder of the University of Michigan
- 25 October - Charlotte Louise de Rohan, noblewoman
Deaths
- 9 February - Hubert Drouais, painter
- 19 February - François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix, physician and botanist
- 6 March - Jacques Clinchamps de Malfilâtre, poet
- 20 March - Firmin Abauzit, scientist
- 9 May - Louis Vigée, painter
- 1 October - Léon Ménard, lawyer and historical writer
- 2 October - Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, engraver
- 7 November - Georges Vallon, architect
Full date unknown
- Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon, mathematician