1771 in France

Events from the year 1771 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch - Louis XV

Events

Limoges porcelain manufacture is established

Births

3 January - Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon, diplomat and historian
19 June - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, mathematician and logician
24 June - Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer
18 August - Louis-François Bertin de Vaux, journalist

Deaths

20 February - Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist, astronomer and chronobiologist
27 December - Henri Pitot, hydraulic engineer, inventor of the pitot tube