Events from the year 1764 in France.
Incumbents Monarch: Louis XV
Events 15 March – The day after his return to Paris from a nine-year mission, French explorer and scholar Anquetil Du Perron presents a complete copy of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Zend Avesta, to the Bibliothèque Royale. 21 April – Residents of French Louisiana are informed for the first time that they will come under Spanish rule (from 1769) as the result of a secret agreement of 13 November 1762, whereby France has ceded all of its North American territory west of the Mississippi River. The government withdraws wartime taxes. Beast of Gévaudan first appears. Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse perfect a commercial recipe for Chartreuse (liqueur).
Births 11 February – Joseph Chénier, poet (d. 1811) 13 April – Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal (d. 1830) 26 April – Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint, aristocrat and civic administrator (d. 1853) 3 May – Princess Élisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI (executed 1794) 13 August – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, general (d. 1813) 7 December Pierre Prévost, panorama painter (d. 1823) Claude-Victor Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Marshal of France (d. 1841)
Full date unknown Sophie de Condorcet, political hostess and feminist (d. 1822)
Deaths 15 April – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV (b. 1721) 11 September – Countess Dash, writer (born 1704) 12 September – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (b. 1683) 22 October – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer and violinist (murdered) (b. 1697) 23 October – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, naval officer (b. 1683)
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