1741 in France

• 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}}

• The cavalry unit Régiment des Hussards de Saxe formed

• Antoine-François Callet, painter (died 1823){{cite encyclopedia |title=Callet, Antoine François |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=4 |year=1916 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/4/0538.html |access-date=5 September 2015 }}

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• Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, poet and dramatist (born 1671)
• Marie Anne de Bourbon, noblewoman (born 1697)
• Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard, singer (born 1669)
• Bernard de Montfaucon, monk and scholar (born 1655)
• Henri Desmarets, composer (born 1661)
• François Pourfour du Petit, anatomist (born 1664)
• Françoise Prévost, ballerina (born c.1680)

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