1764 in France

Events from the year 1764 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Louis XV

Events

 * March 15 – The day after his return to Paris from a nine-year mission, French explorer and scholar Anquetil Du Perron presents a complete copy of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Zend Avesta, to the Bibliothèque Royale.
 * April 21 – Residents of French Louisiana are informed for the first time that they will come under Spanish rule (from 1769) as the result of a secret agreement of November 13, 1762 whereby France has ceded all of its North American territory west of the Mississippi River.
 * The government withdraws wartime taxes.
 * Beast of Gévaudan first appears.
 * Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse perfect a commercial recipe for Chartreuse (liqueur).

Births

 * 11 February – Joseph Chénier, poet (d. 1811)
 * 13 April – Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal (d. 1830)
 * 26 April – Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint, aristocrat and civic administrator (d. 1853)
 * 3 May – Princess Élisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI (executed 1794)
 * 13 August – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, general (d. 1813)
 * 7 December
 * Pierre Prévost, panorama painter (d. 1823)
 * Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Marshal of France (d. 1841)
 * Undated – Sophie de Condorcet, political hostess and feminist (d. 1822)

Deaths

 * 15 April – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV (b. 1721)
 * 11 September – Countess Dash, writer (born 1704)
 * 12 September – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (b. 1683)
 * 22 October – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer and violinist (murdered) (b. 1697)
 * 23 October – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, naval officer (b. 1683)