1770 in France

Events from the year 1770 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XV

Events

 * Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles established

Culture

 * 27 October – First performance of the opera Les deux avares, written by André Grétry
 * Théâtre Déjazet established

Births

 * 5 February – Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (died 1847)
 * 25 March – Antoine Richepanse, revolutionary general (died 1802)

Deaths

 * 14 March – Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet, clergyman and moralist (born 1697)
 * 19 April – Esprit Antoine Blanchard, musician (born 1696)
 * 25 April – Jean-Antoine Nollet clergyman and physicist (born 1700)
 * 30 May – François Boucher, painter (born 1703)
 * 3 August – Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist and apothecary (born 1703)
 * 28 November – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, historian (born 1685)
 * 15 December – Pierre-Joseph Alary, ecclesiastic and writer (born 1689)