1725 in France
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Events from the year 1725 in France.
Contents
Incumbents
- Monarch: Louis XV
Events
- September 16 – The Treaty of Hanover is signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia.
- 1725-1730 - Freemasonry is established in France as an English import.
Births
- January 25 – Antoine Court de Gébelin, French pastor (d. 1784)
- February 26 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
- May 12 – Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (d. 1785)
- Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
- August 21 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)
- September 5 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
- September 12 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
- September 16 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
- October 12 – Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810)
Deaths
- September 16 – Antoine V de Gramont, French military leader (b. 1672)
- October 10 – Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France
- December 7 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)