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Events from the year 1771 in France
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]Births
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- 3 January – Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon, diplomat and historian (died 1841)[2]
- 19 June – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, mathematician and logician (died 1859)
- 24 June – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer (died 1834 in the United States)
- 18 August – Louis-François Bertin de Vaux, journalist (died 1842)
Deaths
[edit]- 20 February – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, geophysicist, astronomer and chronobiologist (born 1678)
- 27 December – Henri Pitot, hydraulic engineer, inventor of the pitot tube (born 1695)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Bignon, Louis Pierre Edouard". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 212. Retrieved 19 August 2015.