1755 in France

Events from the year 1755 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XV

Events

 * Opéra national de Montpellier established
 * Action of 8 June 1755

Full date missing

 * 1 April – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician and essayist (died 1826)
 * 16 April – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (died 1842)
 * 2 November – Maria Antonia, Austrian Habsburg princess who would later marry the incumbent King Louis XVs grandson, Prince Louis-Auguste (the future Louis XVI). (died 1793)
 * 16 November – Maximin Isnard, revolutionary (died 1825)
 * 17 November – Prince Louis Stanislaus, grandson of the reigning King Louis XV and future Louis XVIII. (died 1824)

Full date missing

 * Jean-Baptiste Oudry, painter, engraver and tapestry designer (born 1686)
 * Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (born 1678)
 * Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer (born 1689)
 * Jean-Pierre Christin, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician (born 1683)
 * Jean-Louis Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1665)
 * Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, writer (born c.1695)
 * Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, composer (born c.1705)
 * Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain, nobleman (born 1748)
 * Philip François Renault, explorer (born c.1686)