1781 in France
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Events from the year 1781 in France
Incumbents
- Monarch – Louis XVI
Science
Astronomy
- Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy, was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier.
Births
- 27 March – Charles Joseph Minard, engineer (died 1870)
- 1 May – François-Désiré Breton, naval officer
Deaths
- 18 March – Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, statesman (born 1727).[1]
- 16 August – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, soldier and diplomat (born 1719)
Full date missing
- Christophe de Beaumont, archbishop (born 1703)
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References
- Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1928). "Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). 23 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 928. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
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