1730 in France

• Monarch: Louis XV ==Events==

• • • • • • • 7 March – Baron de Breteuil, last prime minister of the French monarchy (d. 1807) • 10 July - Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, French Freemason (d. 1824) • 26 July – Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817) ==Deaths==

• • • • • • • 20 March – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692) • 7 July – Olivier Levasseur, French pirate • 18 July – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644) • 15 October – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658) • 21 November – François de Troy, French portrait artist (b. 1645) ==See also==