Events from the year 1776 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XVI
Events June–July – Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans, demonstrates his steamboat Palmipède on the Doubs (river). August – The guild organisation Marchandes de modes is founded.
Births
1 April – Sophie Germain, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1831) 4 August – Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (died 1847) 27 March - Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, French batonist and politician (died 1854) 2 August - Louis François, Prince of Conti.
Full date unknown Peter Gilles, composer (died 1839)
Deaths 4 May – Jacques Saly, sculptor (born 1717) 2 August - Louis François, Prince of Conti (born 1717) 25 August – Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix, writer and playwright (born 1698) 17 October – Pierre François le Courayer, writer (born 1681) 23 May - Julie de Lespinasse.
Full date unknown Augustin Roux, encyclopedist (born 1726) Marie Durand, Protestant martyr (d. 1711)
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