1722 in France

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Events from the year 1722 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XV ^[1]
• Regent: Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ^[2]

Events

• University of Burgundy established in Dijon.

Births

• 19 February – Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, author (died 1774)
• 7 March – Louis-Jacques Goussier, illustrator (died 1799)
• 23 March – Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche, astronomer (died 1769)
• 23 May – Claudius Franciscus Gagnières des Granges, Jesuit (massacred 1792)
• 14 July – Jean-Pierre du Teil, general (died 1794)
• 23 July
  • Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius, salon holder (died 1800)
  • Antoine Petit, physician (died 1794)
• 11 November – Nicolas Antoine Boulanger, philosopher (died 1759)
• 22 November – Marc Antoine René de Voyer, ambassador and Minister of War (died 1787)
• 1 December – Jean-Pierre de Bougainville, writer (died 1763)
• 4 December – Guillaume Piguel, French-born Apostolic Vicar of Cochin (died 1771)

Deaths

Sébastien Vaillant

• 23 January – Henri de Boulainvilliers, nobleman and historian (born 1658) ^[3]
• 4 May – Claude Gillot, painter, engraver, book illustrator, metal worker and theatrical designer (born 1673)
• 20 May – Sébastien Vaillant, botanist (born 1669)
• 23 May – Pierre Aveline, engraver (born 1656)
• 26 September – Guillaume Massieu, clergyman (born 1665)
• Full date missing – Charles de Ferriol, ambassador (born 1652)

References

1. "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
2. Semmens, Richard Templar (2004). The Bals Publics at the Paris Opéra in the Eighteenth Century. Pendragon Press. p. 29. ISBN   978-1-57647-034-3.
3. Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Boulainvilliers, Henri". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 31 August 2015.