Events from the year 1737 in France.
Incumbents Monarch: Louis XV
Events February 20 – Foreign Minister Germain Louis Chauvelin is dismissed by Louis XV's Chief Minister, Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury. February 27 – Scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon publish the first study on dendrochronology.De la cause de l'excentricité des couches ligneuses qu'on apperçoit quand on coupe horisontalement le tronc d'un arbre. March 16 – In Paris, representatives sign an armistice bringing an end to the Spanish–Portuguese War (1735–1737). April 5 – Jesuit priest Jean-François Régis is canonized as Saint Regis by the Roman Catholic Church under the reign of Pope Clement XII.
Births January 18 – Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, botanist (d. 1814) February 12 – Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, salon hostess (d. 1794) Marie-Catherine de Maraise, businesswoman (d. 1822) Anne Couppier de Romans, royal mistress (d. 1808) Marguerite Du Londel, ballerina (d. 1804 in Sweden)
Deaths June 4 – François Lemoyne, rococo painter (b. 1688) December 27 – Victor-Marie d'Estrées, marshal (b. 1660)
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