Events from the year 1731 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XV
Events 9 April – The Diocese of Dijon established
Births
18 June – Jean-Louis de Boubers, printer, publisher and bookseller (died 1804) 24 July – Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, chemist (died 1799) 12 October – Jean-Baptiste Blanchard. Jesuit and educator (died 1797)
Full date unknown André-Charles Cailleau, book publisher (died 1798)
Deaths 6 January – Étienne François Geoffroy, physician and chemist (born 1672) 21 February – Blaise Gisbert, Jesuit rhetorician (born 1657) 11 July – Jean-François Leriget de La Faye, diplomat (born 1674) 3 August – Charles Saint-Yves, ophthalmologist (born 1667) 26 December – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, author (born 1672)
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