1776 in France
# 1776 in France

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)

## Full date missing

* Peter Gilles, composer (died 1839)

## Deaths

* 4 May – Jacques Saly, sculptor (born 1717)
* 25 August – Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix, writer and playwright (born 1698)
* 17 October – Pierre François le Courayer, writer (born 1681)

## Full date missing

* Augustin Roux, encyclopedist (born 1726)
* Marie Durand, Protestant martyr (d. 1711)
