Events from the year 1771 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XV
Events Limoges porcelain manufacture is established
Births
3 January – Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon, diplomat and historian (died 1841) 19 June – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, mathematician and logician (died 1859) 24 June – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer (died 1834 in the United States) 18 August – Louis-François Bertin de Vaux, journalist (died 1842)
Deaths 20 February – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist, astronomer and chronobiologist (born 1678) 27 December – Henri Pitot, hydraulic engineer, inventor of the pitot tube (born 1695)
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