See also: 1774 in France, other events of 1775, 1776 in France.

Events from the year 1775 in France.

Events

Births

January to June

• 20 January - Andr -Marie Amp re, physicist (d.1836).
• 3 February - Maximilien Sebastien Foy, military leader, statesman and writer (d.1825).
• 3 February - Louis-Fran ois, Baron Lejeune, general, painter and lithographer (d.1848).
• 30 April - Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, Marshal of France, (d.1851).
• 10 May - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, Cavalry general (killed in battle) (d.1809).

July to December

• 3 July - Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, younger brother of Louis-Philippe of France (d.1807).
• 23 July - Eug ne Fran ois Vidocq, criminal, later first director of S ret Nationale (d.1857).
• 6 August - Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoul me, the last Dauphin of France (d.1844).
• 1 September - Honor Charles Reille, Marshal of France (d.1860).
• 11 November - Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, entomologist (d.1858).
• 30 November - Jean Joseph Antoine de Courvoisier, magistrate and politician (d.1835).
• 10 December - Jacques-Antoine Manuel, politician and orator (d.1827).
• 16 December - Fran ois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer (d.1834).

Full date unknown

• Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame (d.1845).
• Charles Berny d'Ouvill , miniaturist (d.1842).
• Fran ois P ron, naturalist and explorer (d.1810).

Deaths

References

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