1776 in France

• Monarch – 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}}

• June–July – Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans, demonstrates his steamboat Palmipède on the Doubs (river).{{cite book|chapter=Claude-François-Dorothée de Jouffroy|url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08526b.htm|title=The Catholic Encyclopedia|via=New Advent|last=Fox|first=W.|year=1910|location=New York|publisher=Robert Appleton Company|accessdate=2023-03-24}}
• August – The guild organisation Marchandes de modes is founded.

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• 1 April – Sophie Germain, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1831)
• 4 August – Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (died 1847)

• Peter Gilles, composer (died 1839){{cite web|url=http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/gilles.html|title=Philadelphia Composers: Peter Gilles (1776-1839)|first=John|last=Bewley|work=Keffler Collection of Sheet Music|access-date=17 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203223242/http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/gilles.html|archive-date=3 February 2019|url-status=dead}}

• 4 May – Jacques Saly, sculptor (born 1717)
• 25 August – Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix, writer and playwright (born 1698)
• 17 October – Pierre François le Courayer, writer (born 1681)

• Augustin Roux, encyclopedist (born 1726)
• Marie Durand, Protestant martyr (d. 1711)

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