1776 in France

Events from the year 1776 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XVI

Events

 * June–July – Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans, demonstrates his steamboat Palmipède on the Doubs (river).
 * August – The guild organisation Marchandes de modes is founded.

Births

 * 1 April – Sophie Germain, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1831)
 * 4 August – Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (died 1847)

Full date missing

 * Peter Gilles, composer (died 1839)

Deaths

 * 4 May – Jacques Saly, sculptor (born 1717)
 * 25 August – Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix, writer and playwright (born 1698)
 * 17 October – Pierre François le Courayer, writer (born 1681)

Full date missing

 * Augustin Roux, encyclopedist (born 1726)
 * Marie Durand, Protestant martyr (d. 1711)