1783 in France

Events from the year 1783 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XVI

Events

 * 3 September Treaty of Paris
 * 21 November First manned hot air balloon flight

Births

 * 1 February – André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin, lawyer and politician (died 1865)
 * 5 July – Charles-Louis Havas, writer and founder of Agence France-Presse (died 1858).
 * 24 July – Frédéric de Lafresnaye, ornithologist (died 1861).
 * 19 December – Charles Julien Brianchon, mathematician and chemist (died 1864).

Deaths

 * 27 September – Étienne Bézout, mathematician (born 1730)
 * 5 December – Sophie d'Artois, princess (born 1776)
 * - Marguerite Gourdan, brothel madam (born year unknown)