1721 in France
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Events from the year 1721 in France.
==Incumbents==
- Monarch: Louis XV{{cite web |title=BBC - History - King Louis XV |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xv.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=17 June 2022}}
- Regent: Philip II of Orleans{{cite book |last1=Semmens |first1=Richard Templar |title=The Bals Publics at the Paris Opéra in the Eighteenth Century |date=2004 |publisher=Pendragon Press |isbn=978-1-57647-034-3 |page=29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p6RRLRH12foC&pg=PA29 |language=en}}
Events
Births
- October 19 – Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
- December 6 – Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)
- December 29 – Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)
Deaths
- April 14 – Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
- July 18 – Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
- August 13 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)
- Henri Arnaud, French pastor and leader of the Waldenses (b. 1641)
See also
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