1775 in France
Events from the year 1775 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Louis XVI
Events
- April–May – Flour War: riots against bread prices.
- 11 June – Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims Cathedral, the last to take place during the Ancien régime
- Probable date – Jeanne Baret returns to France, becoming the first woman to complete a circumnavigation of the globe.
Births
January to June
- 20 January – André-Marie Ampère, physicist
- 1 February – Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame
- 3 February
- *Maximilien Sébastien Foy, military leader, statesman and writer.
- *Louis-François Lejeune, general, painter and lithographer.
- 30 April – Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, Marshal of France.
- 10 May – Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, cavalry general .
July to December
- 3 July – Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, younger brother of Louis Philippe I.
- 23 July – Eugène-François Vidocq, criminal, later first director of Sûreté Nationale.
- 6 August – Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, last Dauphin of France.
- 22 August – François Péron, naturalist and explorer.
- 1 September – Honoré Charles Reille, Marshal of France.
- 11 November – Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, entomologist.
- 30 November – Jean Joseph Antoine de Courvoisier, magistrate and politician.
- 10 December – Jacques-Antoine Manuel, politician and orator.
- 16 December – François-Adrien Boieldieu, composer.
Full date unknown
Deaths
January to June
- 5 March – Dormont de Belloy, actor/playwright
- 27 May – Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon
July to December
- 6 September – Jean-Baptiste Bullet, scholar
- 26 October – Pierre-Edmé Babel, engraver
- 1 November – Pierre-Joseph Bernard, poet
- 6 November – Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort, painter
Full date unknown
- Nicolas La Grange, playwright and translator
In literature
- The historical fiction A Tale of Two Cities by English novelist Charles Dickens opens in this year ; it is the story of London and Paris leading up to the French Revolution.