1785 in France
# 1785 in France

Events from the year 1785 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Louis XVI

## Events

### January

* 7 January - French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard crosses the English Channel in a balloon

### July

* 16 July - The Piper-Heidsieck Champagne house is founded by Florens-Louis Heidsieck in Reims, France.

### August

* 15 August - Cardinal de Rohan is arrested in Paris; the Necklace Affair comes into the open.

### Date unknown

* Cabinet des Modes, the first fashion magazine, is published in France.

## Births

* 10 February - Claude-Louis Navier
* 27 March - Louis XVII
* 3 April - François-Jean-Hyacinthe Feutrier
* 21 April - Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut
* 5 May - Charles Xavier Thomas
* 12 July - Joseph Pelet de la Lozère
* 30 September - Ange Hyacinthe Maxence, baron de Damas
* 5 October - Joseph Bernelle
* 10 October - Florestan I, Prince of Monaco
* 13 October - Jean-Charles Persil
* 28 November
   * Federico de Brandsen
   * Victor de Broglie
* 22 December - Achille Libéral Treilhard
* 26 December - Laurent Clerc
* Marie Durand, saint (d. 1864)

## Deaths

* 7 January - Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau
* 4 February - Donat Nonnotte
* 8 May - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul
* 15 June
   * Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, during failed cross channel balloon flight
* 20 August - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
* 15 November - César Gabriel de Choiseul
* 18 November - Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
