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Events from the year 1740 in France
Incumbents
Events
- Vincennes porcelain factory established.[2]
 - Approximate date − The mystical tradition called Martinism is established as a masonic high-degree order.
 
Births
- 12 April − Claude André Deseine, sculptor (d. 1823)
 - 26 April − Jean-Jacques Paulet, mycologist (d. 1826)
 - 2 June − Marquis de Sade, nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer (d. 1814)
 - 6 June − Louis-Sébastien Mercier, dramatist and writer (d. 1814)
 - 10 July − Louis-Étienne Ricard, politician (d. 1840)[3]
 - 27 July − Jeanne Baret, first woman to circumnavigate the globe (d. 1807)
 
Full date missing
- Catherine Éléonore Bénard, noble (d. 1769)
 - François Cointeraux, architect (d. 1830)
 - Jean Baptiste François de La Villéon, vice-admiral
 
Deaths
- 27 January − Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (born 1692)
 - 15 February − Nicolas Prosper Bauyn d'Angervilliers, politician (born 1675)
 - 2 March − John Gagnier, orientalist (born 1670?)
 - July − Jacques Barbel, French soldier in Canada (born c.1670)[4]
 
Full date missing
- Jacques Cassard, naval officer (born 1679)
 - Pierre Crozat, art collector (born 1665)[5]
 - Jean Soanen, bishop (born 1647)
 
See also
References
- ↑ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
 - ↑ Tamara Préaud, ed. Porcelaines de Vincennes: les origines de Sèvres, exhibition catalogue, Grand Palais, October 1977–January 1978.
 - ↑ Biographical details on the National Assembly's site
 - ↑ Vachon, André (1979) [1969]. "Barbel, Jacques". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. II (1701–1740) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
 - ↑ "Pierre Crozat (Biographical details)". britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
 
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