1772 in France

Events from the year 1772 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Louis XV

Events

 * 12 February – Breton-French explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec discovers the uninhabited Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Ocean.
 * The Clicquot Champagne house is founded by Philippe Clicquot in Reims.
 * Houbigant Parfum is founded by Jean-François Houbigant of Grasse in Paris.

Births

 * 20 January – Angélique Brûlon, soldier, first female Knight of the Legion of Honour (d. 1859)
 * 7 April – Charles Fourier, philosopher (d. 1837)
 * 25 October – Géraud Duroc, general (d. 1813)

Deaths

 * 21 March – Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, cartographer (b. 1703)
 * 26 March – Charles Pinot Duclos, writer (b. 1704)
 * 15 June – Louis-Claude Daquin, composer (b. 1694)
 * 22 June – François-Vincent Toussaint, writer most famous for Les Mœurs (b. 1715)
 * 8 October – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, violinist and composer (b. 1711)