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See also: | Other events of 1784 History of France • Timeline • Years |
Events from the year 1784 in France
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]Arts and culture
[edit]Opera
[edit]- 18 September – Dardanus, opera by Antonio Sacchini, was first performed at Versailles
Theatre
[edit]- Le Bon Père, comedy by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, first performed by the Comédie Italienne in Paris in 1784
Births
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- 6 October – Charles Dupin, mathematician (died 1873)[2]
Deaths
[edit]- 29 January – Abbé François Blanchet, intellectual (born 1707)
- 15 February – Pierre Macquer, chemist (born 1718)
- 7 March – Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi, botanist and poet (born 1734)
- 30 March – Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre, military officer (born 1718)
- 30 July – Denis Diderot, philosopher (born 1713)[3]
- 1 September – Jean-François Séguier, botanist and astronomer (born 1703)
- 1 November – Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, man of letters and erudition (born 1709)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XVI". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1917). "Dupin, Pierre Charles François". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 6 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 528. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1917). "Diderot, Denis". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 6 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 128. Retrieved 22 November 2014.