Events from the year 1753 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XV
Events The chemical element bismuth discovered by Claude François Geoffroy
Births
4 July –Jean-Pierre Blanchard, inventor, pioneer in balloon flight (died 1809) 25 July – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, military officer in Spanish colonial service, Viceroy of the Río de la Plata (executed 1810) 20 November – Louis-Alexandre Berthier, maréchal de France (died 1815) 23 November – Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas, military officer (died 1837)
Full date unknown Pierre Cuillier-Perron, military adventurer (died 1834) Charles Julien Fanneau de Lahorie, French sailor (died 1822)
Deaths 18 June – Claude François Geoffroy, chemist (born 1729) 10 November – Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, naval officer (born 1699) 10 December – Claude Gros de Boze, scholar and numismatist (born 1680)
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