1784 in France

Events from the year 1784 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch - Louis XVI

Events

Science

Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism appointed in Paris.

Arts and culture

Opera

18 September - Dardanus, opera by Antonio Sacchini, was first performed at Versailles

Theatre

Le Bon Père, comedy by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, first performed by the Comédie Italienne in Paris in 1784

Births

6 October - Charles Dupin, mathematician

Deaths

29 January - Abbé François Blanchet, intellectual
15 February - Pierre Macquer, chemist
7 March - Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi, botanist and poet
30 March - Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre, military officer
30 July - Denis Diderot, philosopher
1 September - Jean-François Séguier, botanist and astronomer
1 November - Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, man of letters and erudition