1741 in France

A list of events from the year 1741 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XV

Events

 * The cavalry unit Régiment des Hussards de Saxe formed

Full date missing

 * Antoine-François Callet, painter (died 1823)

Full date missing

 * Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, poet and dramatist (born 1671)
 * Marie Anne de Bourbon, noblewoman (born 1697)
 * Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard, singer (born 1669)
 * Bernard de Montfaucon, monk and scholar (born 1655)
 * Henri Desmarets, composer (born 1661)
 * François Pourfour du Petit, anatomist (born 1664)
 * Françoise Prévost, ballerina (born c.1680)