1741 in France

• Monarch – Louis XV ==Events==

• The cavalry unit Régiment des Hussards de Saxe formed ==Births==

Full date unknown • Antoine-François Callet, painter (died 1823) ==Deaths==

• 17 March – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, poet and dramatist (born 1671) • 18 June – François Pourfour du Petit, anatomist (born 1664) • 11 August – Marie Anne de Bourbon, noblewoman (born 1697) • 25 August – Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard, singer (born 1669) • 7 September – Henri Desmarets, composer (born 1661) • 21 December – Bernard de Montfaucon, monk and scholar (born 1655) Full date unknown • Françoise Prévost, ballerina (born c.1680) ==See also==