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Events from the year 1784 in France
Incumbents
Events
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Science
- Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism appointed in Paris.
Arts and culture
Opera
- 18 September – Dardanus, opera by Antonio Sacchini, was first performed at Versailles
Theatre
- Le Bon Père, comedy by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, first performed by the Comédie Italienne in Paris in 1784
Births
- 6 October – Charles Dupin, mathematician (died 1873)
Deaths
- 29 January – Abbé François Blanchet, intellectual (born 1707)
- 15 February – Pierre Macquer, chemist (born 1718)
- 7 March – Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi, botanist and poet (born 1734)
- 30 March – Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre, military officer (born 1718)
- 30 July – Denis Diderot, philosopher (born 1713)
- 1 September – Jean-François Séguier, botanist and astronomer (born 1703)
- 1 November – Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, man of letters and erudition (born 1709)
See also
Portals:References
- "BBC - History - King Louis XVI". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- "Antoine de Lavoisier's role in designing a single-blind trial to assess whether 'Animal Magnetism' exists". The James Lind Library. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
- Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1917). "Dupin, Pierre Charles François". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 6 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 528. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1917). "Diderot, Denis". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 6 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 128. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
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