Events from the year 1784 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XVI
Events
Science
Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism appointed in Paris.
Arts and culture Opera 18 September – Dardanus, opera by Antonio Sacchini, was first performed at Versailles
Theatre Le Bon Père, comedy by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, first performed by the Comédie Italienne in Paris in 1784
Births
6 October – Charles Dupin, mathematician (died 1873)
Deaths 29 January – Abbé François Blanchet, intellectual (born 1707) 15 February – Pierre Macquer, chemist (born 1718) 7 March – Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi, botanist and poet (born 1734) 30 March – Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre, military officer (born 1718) 30 July – Denis Diderot, philosopher (born 1713) 1 September – Jean-François Séguier, botanist and astronomer (born 1703) 1 November – Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, man of letters and erudition (born 1709)
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