1783 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XVI

Events

• 3 September Treaty of Paris
• 21 November First manned hot air balloon flight

Births

• 1 February - André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin, lawyer and politician
• 5 July - Charles-Louis Havas, writer and founder of Agence France-Presse.
• 24 July - Frédéric de Lafresnaye, ornithologist.
• 19 December - Charles Julien Brianchon, mathematician and chemist.

Deaths

• 27 September - Étienne Bézout, mathematician
• 5 December - Sophie d'Artois, princess
• Marguerite Gourdan, brothel madam