1765 in France
Events from the year 1765 in FranceIncumbents
- Monarch - Louis XV
Events
- École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort founded
- The Hennessy cognac house founded
Births
- 11 January – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, librarian
- 7 March – Nicéphore Niépce, inventor, pioneer photographer
- 26 July – Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, marshal
- 4 August – Claire Lacombe, actress and revolutionary
- 1 September – Étienne Pellot, "le Renard Basque", corsair
- 15 October – Joseph Dutens, engineer
- 17 November – Jacques MacDonald, marshal
- 3 December – Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet and painter from Brittany
- Approximate date – James Smithson, British chemist, mineralogist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States
Deaths
- 23 February – Jean Girard, organist
- 15 April – Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon, princess
- 29 June – François Dominique Barreau de Chefdeville, architect
- 5 September – Anne Claude de Caylus, antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters
- Date unknown – Louis-Antoine Dornel, composer
