Events from the year 1765 in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

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Louis XV Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached ...

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École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort The National veterinary school of Alfort ( or ''ENVA'') is a French public institution of scientific research and higher education in veterinary medicine, located in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, close to Paris. It is operated under the superv ...

founded *The

Hennessy Jas Hennessy & Co., commonly known simply as Hennessy (), is a French producer of cognac, which has its headquarters in Cognac, France. It is one of the "big four" cognac houses, along with Martell, Courvoisier, and Rémy Martin, who together ma ...

cognac house founded

Births

* 11 January –

Antoine Alexandre Barbier Antoine Alexandre Barbier (11 January 1765 – 5 December 1825) was a French librarian and bibliographer. He was born in Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne). He took priest's orders, from which, however, he was finally released by the pope in 1801. ...

, librarian (died 1825) * 7 March –

Nicéphore Niépce Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833), commonly known or referred to simply as Nicéphore Niépce, was a French inventor, usually credited with the invention of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he us ...

, inventor, pioneer photographer (died 1833) * 26 July –

Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (29 July 176525 January 1844) was a Marshal of France and a soldier in the Grande Armée during the Napoleonic Wars. He notably commanded the I Corps of the '' Army of the North'' at the Battle of Waterloo. Ear ...

, marshal (died 1844) * 4 August – Claire Lacombe, actress and revolutionary * 1 September – Étienne Pellot, "le Renard Basque", corsair (died 1856) * 15 October – Joseph Dutens, engineer (died 1848) * 17 November –

Jacques MacDonald Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...

, marshal (died 1840) * 3 December – Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet and painter from Brittany (died 1825) * Approximate date – James Smithson, British chemist, mineralogist and posthumous founder of the

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...

in the United States (died 1829 in Italy)

Deaths

* 23 February – Jean Girard, organist (born 1696) * 15 April – Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon, princess (born 1705) * 29 June – François Dominique Barreau de Chefdeville, architect (born 1725) * 5 September – Anne Claude de Caylus, antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters (born 1692) * 26 September – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, explorer of North America (born 1683) * Date unknown –

Louis-Antoine Dornel Louis-Antoine Dornel (30 March 1680 in Presles, Val-d'Oise near (Beaumont-sur-Oise) – 22 July 1757) was a French composer, harpsichordist, organist and violinist. Biography Dornel was probably taught by the organist Nicolas Lebègue. He was ...

, composer (born c.1685)

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