1774 in France

Events from the year 1774 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XV (until 10 May), then Louis XVI

Events

 * 10 May – Louis XV of France dies, and Louis XVI becomes the new king
 * Louis XVI faces empty treasury
 * division of three estates

Births

 * 9 March – Louis Auguste Say, economist and businessman, founder of sugar refineries in Nantes and Paris (died 1840)

Deaths



 * 4 February – Charles Marie de La Condamine, explorer, geographer, and mathematician (born 1701)
 * 24 April – Sara Banzet, educator and diarist (b. 1745)
 * 10 May – Louis XV, King of France from 1715 (born 1710)
 * 30 November – Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, economist and statistician (born 1695)
 * 16 December – François Quesnay, economist (born 1694)
 * 29 December – Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare (born 1757)
 * date unknown:
 * Justine Paris, courtesan and madam (born 1705)
 * Catherine Michelle de Maisonneuve, editor and writer