Events from the year 1755 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XV
Events Opéra national de Montpellier established Action of 8 June 1755
Births
1 April – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, lawyer, politician and essayist (died 1826) 16 April – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (died 1842) 2 November – Maria Antonia, Austrian Habsburg princess who would later marry the incumbent King Louis XVs grandson, Prince Louis-Auguste (the future Louis XVI). (died 1793) 16 November – Maximin Isnard, revolutionary (died 1825) 17 November – Prince Louis Stanislaus, grandson of the reigning King Louis XV and future Louis XVIII. (died 1824)
Deaths 11 January – Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, composer (born c.1705) 19 January – Jean-Pierre Christin, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician (born 1683) 24 April – Philip François Renault, explorer (born c.1686) 30 April – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, painter, engraver and tapestry designer (born 1686) 19 May – Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain, nobleman (born 1748) 28 October – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer (born 1689) 25 November – Jacques Caffieri, sculptor (born 1678) 29 December – Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, writer (born c.1695)
Full date unknown Jean-Louis Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1665)
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