1774 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XV, Louis XVI

  Events

• 10 May - Louis XV of France dies, and Louis XVI becomes the new king
• Louis XVI faces empty treasury
• division of three estates

  Births

• 9 March - Louis Auguste Say, economist and businessman, founder of sugar refineries in Nantes and Paris

  Deaths

• 4 February - Charles Marie de La Condamine, explorer, geographer, and mathematician.
• 24 April - Sara Banzet, educator and diarist
• 10 May - Louis XV, King of France and Navarre from 1715
• 30 November - Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, economist and statistician
• 16 December - François Quesnay, economist
• 29 December - Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare
• date unknown:
• * Justine Paris, courtesan and madam
• * Catherine Michelle de Maisonneuve, editor and writer