1789 in France

Events from the year 1789 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XVI

Births

 * 4 January – Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul, military officer and politician (died 1865)
 * 21 August – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, mathematician (died 1857)
 * 28 August – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, nobility (died 1860)
 * 31 December – Claudius Crozet, educator and engineer (died 1864)

Deaths

 * 2 February – Armand-Louis Couperin, composer and keyboard player (born 1727)
 * 9 May – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, artillery officer (born 1715)
 * 15 May – Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, painter (born 1714)
 * 15 July – Jacques Duphly, composer and harpsichordist (born 1715)
 * 3 December – Claude Joseph Vernet, painter (born 1714).
 * 23 December – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, philanthropist, developer of signed French (born 1712)