1775 in France

• Monarch: Louis XVI ==Events==

• April–May – Flour War: riots against bread prices. • 11 June – Coronation of Louis XVI in Reims Cathedral, the last to take place during the Ancien régime • Probable date – Jeanne Baret returns to France, becoming the first woman to complete a circumnavigation of the globe. ==Births==

January to June • 20 January – André-Marie Ampère, physicist (died 1836) • 1 February – Philippe de Girard, engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame (died 1845) • 3 February • Maximilien Sébastien Foy, military leader, statesman and writer (died 1825). • Louis-François Lejeune, general, painter and lithographer (died 1848). • 30 April – Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, Marshal of France (died 1851). • 10 May – Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, cavalry general (killed in battle) (died 1809). July to December • 3 July – Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, younger brother of Louis Philippe I (died 1807). • 23 July – Eugène-François Vidocq, criminal, later first director of Sûreté Nationale (died 1857). • 6 August – Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, last Dauphin of France (died 1844). • 22 August – François Péron, naturalist and explorer (died 1810). • 1 September – Honoré Charles Reille, Marshal of France (died 1860). • 11 November – Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, entomologist (died 1858). • 30 November – Jean Joseph Antoine de Courvoisier, magistrate and politician (died 1835). • 10 December – Jacques-Antoine Manuel, politician and orator (died 1827). • 16 December – François-Adrien Boieldieu, composer (died 1834). Full date unknown • Charles Berny d'Ouvillé, miniaturist (died 1842). ==Deaths==

January to June • 5 March – Dormont de Belloy, actor/playwright (born 1727) • 27 May – Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (born 1693) July to December • 6 September – Jean-Baptiste Bullet, scholar (born 1699) • 26 October – Pierre-Edmé Babel, engraver (born 1720) • 1 November – Pierre-Joseph Bernard, poet (born 1708) • 6 November – Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort, painter (born 1719) Full date unknown • Nicolas La Grange, playwright and translator (born 1707) ==In literature==

• The historical fiction A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by English novelist Charles Dickens opens in this year ("It was the best of times; it was the worst of times"); it is the story of London and Paris leading up to the French Revolution. ==See also==