1787 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XVI

Events

February

• 22 February - The Assembly of Notables is held

November

• 7 November - Louis XVI signs the Edict of Versailles, giving religious freedom to non-Catholics in France.
• 21 November - The Treaty of Versailles (1787) is signed between Louis XVI and the Vietnamese prince Nguyễn Ánh.

Births

• 24 January - Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de Fréminville
• 2 February - Charles Etienne Boniface
• 8 February - Théodore Basset de Jolimont
• 2 May - Martial de Guernon-Ranville
• 1 August - Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord
• 15 August - Francois Sudre

Deaths

• 13 February - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes