1785 in France

Events from the year 1785 in France.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Louis XVI

January

 * 7 January - French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard crosses the English Channel in a balloon

July

 * 16 July - The Piper-Heidsieck Champagne house is founded by Florens-Louis Heidsieck in Reims, France.

August

 * 15 August - Cardinal de Rohan is arrested in Paris; the Necklace Affair comes into the open.

Date unknown

 * Cabinet des Modes, the first fashion magazine, is published in France.

Births

 * 10 February - Claude-Louis Navier
 * 27 March - Louis XVII
 * 3 April - François-Jean-Hyacinthe Feutrier
 * 21 April - Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut
 * 5 May - Charles Xavier Thomas
 * 12 July - Joseph Pelet de la Lozère
 * 30 September - Ange Hyacinthe Maxence, baron de Damas
 * 5 October - Joseph Bernelle
 * 10 October - Florestan I, Prince of Monaco
 * 13 October - Jean-Charles Persil
 * 28 November
 * Federico de Brandsen
 * Victor de Broglie
 * 22 December - Achille Libéral Treilhard
 * 26 December - Laurent Clerc
 * Marie Durand, saint (d. 1864)

Deaths

 * 7 January - Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau
 * 4 February - Donat Nonnotte
 * 8 May - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul
 * 15 June
 * Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, during failed cross channel balloon flight
 * 20 August - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
 * 15 November - César Gabriel de Choiseul
 * 18 November - Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans