1777 in France

Events from the year 1777 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XVI^[1]

Events

• 3 June – Treaty of Aranjuez

Births

• 31 January – Jean-Pierre Vibert, rosarian (died 1866)
• 12 February
  • Bernard Courtois, chemist (died 1838)
  • Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, poet (died 1843)
• 3 March – Adolphe Dureau de la Malle, geographer, naturalist, historian and artist (died 1857)
• 3 December – Juliette Récamier, saloniste (died 1849)
• Auguste, comte de La Ferronays, politician (died 1842)

Deaths

• 27 January – Hubert de Brienne, naval commander (born 1690)
• 20 March – Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart, cardinal (born 1708)
• 7 May
  • Charles de Brosses, writer (born 1709)
  • Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, officer of the marines and colonial administrator for New France (born 1708)
• 23 August – Charles-Joseph Natoire, painter (born 1700)
• 13 July – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, sculptor (born 1715)^[2]
• 6 October – Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, saloniste (born 1699)

References

1. ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XVI". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
2. ^ Blangstrup, Chr. (ed.) (1916). "Coustou, Guillaume" (in Danish). Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon. Vol. 5. 2 ed. Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 277. Retrieved 2015-05-15.