1729 in France

Events from the year 1729 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}}

9 November – France signed The Treaty of Seville with Britain and Spain bringing an end to the Angelo-Spanish War started in 1727. {{Cite web |last=Archives |first=The National |title=The Discovery Service |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3678181 |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk |language=en-GB}}

18 April – Gaétan Vestris, dancer (died 1808)
12 November – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, admiral and explorer (died 1811){{cite encyclopedia |year=1915 |title=Bougainville, Louis Antoine |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/3/0820.html |access-date=3 September 2015 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |edition=2 |volume=3 |language=da}}
4 September – Dauphin Louis, Son of Louis XV (d. 1765)

26 March – Simon de la Loubère, diplomat, mathematician and poet (born 1642)
27 June – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist and composer (b. 1665){{cite book|first=Cecelia|last=Hopkins Porter|title=Five Lives in Music: Women Performers, Composers, and Impresarios from the Baroque to the Present|location=Urbana|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0-25208-009-8|page=53}}
18 October – Nicolas Ravot d'Ombreval, magistrate (born 1680)
1 December – Giacomo F. Maraldi, astronomer and mathematician (born 1665)
26 December – Honoré Tournély, Catholic theologian (born 1658)