1765 in France

Events from the year 1765 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}}

11 January – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, librarian (died 1825)
7 March – Nicéphore Niépce, inventor, pioneer photographer (died 1833)
26 July – Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, marshal (died 1844)
4 August – Claire Lacombe, actress and revolutionary
1 September – Étienne Pellot, "le Renard Basque", corsair (died 1856)
15 October – Joseph Dutens, engineer (died 1848)
17 November – Jacques MacDonald, marshal (died 1840)
3 December – Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet and painter from Brittany (died 1825)
Approximate date – James Smithson, British chemist, mineralogist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States (died 1829 in Italy)

23 February – Jean Girard, organist (born 1696)
15 April – Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon, princess (born 1705)
29 June – François Dominique Barreau de Chefdeville, architect (born 1725)
5 September – Anne Claude de Caylus, antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters (born 1692){{cite encyclopedia|title=Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe de Tubieres|encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon|volume=4|year=1916|edition=2nd|editor=Blangstrup, Chr.|editor-link=Christian Blangstrup|publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel|location=Copenhagen|language=da|url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/4/0716.html|access-date=2015-09-05}}
26 September – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, explorer of North America (born 1683)
20 December – Louis, Dauphin of France (born 1729)
Date unknown – Louis-Antoine Dornel, composer (born c.1685)