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1764
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Events from the year 1764 in France.

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Events

  • March 15 – 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.
  • April 21 – 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 November 13, 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).

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References

  1. "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  2. Darmesteter, James, ed. (1880). The Zend-Avesta. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. xv.
  3. Dillon, John B. (1879). Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America. Robert Douglass Publishing. p. 322.
  4. "The Products of the Carthusian Fathers". Chartreuse. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
  5. "Elizabeth Of France | princess of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
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