1772 in France
# 1772 in France

Events from the year 1772 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Louis XV

## Events

* 12 February – Breton-French explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec discovers the uninhabited Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Ocean.
* The Clicquot Champagne house is founded by Philippe Clicquot in Reims.
* Houbigant Parfum is founded by Jean-François Houbigant of Grasse in Paris.

## Births

* 20 January – Angélique Brûlon, soldier, first female Knight of the Legion of Honour (d. 1859)
* 7 April – Charles Fourier, philosopher (d. 1837)
* 25 October – Géraud Duroc, general (d. 1813)

## Deaths

* 21 March – Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, cartographer (b. 1703)
* 26 March – Charles Pinot Duclos, writer (b. 1704)
* 15 June – Louis-Claude Daquin, composer (b. 1694)
* 22 June – François-Vincent Toussaint, writer most famous for Les Mœurs (b. 1715)
* 8 October – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, violinist and composer (b. 1711)
