1774 in France

Events from the year 1774 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Louis XV (until 10 May),{{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}} then Louis XVI{{cite web |title=BBC - History - King Louis XVI |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xvi.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=24 June 2022}}

9 March – Louis Auguste Say, economist and businessman, founder of sugar refineries in Nantes and Paris (died 1840)

4 February – Charles Marie de La Condamine, explorer, geographer, and mathematician (born 1701){{cite encyclopedia |title=Condamine, Charles Marie de la |page=169 |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=5 |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/2/5/0177.html |access-date=17 August 2015 }}
24 April – Sara Banzet, educator and diarist (b. 1745)
10 May – Louis XV, King of France from 1715 (born 1710)
30 November – Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, economist and statistician (born 1695)
16 December – François Quesnay, economist (born 1694)
29 December – Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare (born 1757)
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Justine Paris, courtesan and madam (born 1705)
Catherine Michelle de Maisonneuve, editor and writer