Events from the year 1774 in France
Incumbents
Monarch – Louis XV (until 10 May), then Louis XVI
Events
10 May – Louis XV of France dies, and Louis XVI becomes the new king
Louis XVI faces empty treasury
division of three estates
Births
9 March – Louis Auguste Say, economist and businessman, founder of sugar refineries in Nantes and Paris (died 1840)
Deaths
4 February – Charles Marie de La Condamine, explorer, geographer, and mathematician (born 1701) 24 April – Sara Banzet, educator and diarist (b. 1745) 10 May – Louis XV, King of France from 1715 (born 1710) 30 November – Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, economist and statistician (born 1695) 16 December – François Quesnay, economist (born 1694) 29 December – Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare (born 1757) date unknown: Justine Paris, courtesan and madam (born 1705) Catherine Michelle de Maisonneuve, editor and writer