1736 in France

• Monarch: Louis XV ==Events==

• • • May 26 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops. • June 19 – French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in Meänmaa of Finland. ==Births==

• February 19 – Simon Charles Miger, engraver (d. 1828) • March 21 – Claude Nicolas Ledoux, neoclassical architect (d. 1806) • June 14 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (d. 1806) • June 22 – Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy, painter primarily of naval scenes (d. 1804) • August 26 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, geologist (d. 1790) • September 15 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, astronomer (d. 1793) • November 30 – Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, painter and etcher (d. 1810) • Honoré Blanc, gunsmith (d. 1801) ==Deaths==

• April 2 – Étienne Allegrain, topographical painter (b. 1644) • April 24 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663) • July 25 – Jean-Baptiste Pater, rococo painter (b. 1695) • September 26 – Louise Diane d'Orléans, youngest child of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (b. 1716) • November 2 – Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, duke (b. 1664) ==See also==