1770 in France

• Monarch – Louis XV ==Events==

• 16 May – 14-year-old Marie Antoinette of Austria marries Louis-Auguste (who in 1774 becomes King Louis XVI) at the Palace of Versailles • 20 May – A stampede at a celebration of the newly wedded Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste in Paris kills more than a hundred people • 3 June – The 7.5 Port-au-Prince earthquake affects the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 250 or more • 14 June–3 October – Charles Messier observes Lexell's Comet as it passes closer to Earth than any other in recorded history • 7 December – Louis XV issues the Edict of December, dismissing rebellious magistrates of the Parlements of Paris and the other 13 provinces • 24 December – César Gabriel de Choiseul is dismissed from his position as Secretary of the Navy by the king • Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles established • Joseph-Louis Lagrange proves Bachet's conjecture • The Baron d'Holbach's (anonymous) materialist work Le Système de la Nature ou Des Loix du Monde Physique et du Monde Moral is published ==Culture==

• 20 January – The new Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), the first purpose-built opera house in Paris, designed by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, is inaugurated with a performance of Rameau's Zoroastre • 16 May – The new Opéra royal de Versailles, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, is inaugurated. • 27 October – First performance of the opera Les deux avares, written by André Grétry, at Fontainebleau • December – The Library of the Sorbonne in Paris is opened to the public • The Théâtre Déjazet is established in Paris by the Comte d'Artois • Anne Vallayer-Coster is admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the age of 26 ==Births==

• 5 February – Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (died 1847) • 21 February – Georges Mouton, Marshal of France (died 1838) • 2 March – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (died 1826) • 25 March – Antoine Richepanse, revolutionary general (died 1802) • 10 May – Louis-Nicolas Davout, Marshal of France (died 1823) • 18 December – Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France, Minister of War (died 1840) ==Deaths==

• 14 March – Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet, clergyman and moralist (born 1697) • 19 April – Esprit Antoine Blanchard, musician (born 1696) • 25 April – Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (born 1700) • 30 May – François Boucher, painter (born 1703) • 3 August – Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist and apothecary (born 1703) • 28 November – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, historian (born 1685) • 15 December – Pierre-Joseph Alary, ecclesiastic and writer (born 1689) ==See also==