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Events from the year 1764 in France.

• Monarch: Louis XV

• 15 March – The day after his return to Paris from a nine-year mission, French explorer and scholar Anquetil Du Perron presents a complete copy of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Zend Avesta, to the Bibliothèque Royale.

• 21 April – Residents of French Louisiana are informed for the first time that they will come under Spanish rule (from 1769) as the result of a secret agreement of 13 November 1762, whereby France has ceded all of its North American territory west of the Mississippi River.

• The government withdraws wartime taxes.

• Beast of Gévaudan first appears.

• Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse perfect a commercial recipe for Chartreuse (liqueur).

• 11 February – Joseph Chénier, poet (d. 1811)

• 13 April – Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal (d. 1830)

• 26 April – Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint, aristocrat and civic administrator (d. 1853)

• 3 May – Princess Élisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI (executed 1794)

• 13 August – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, general (d. 1813)

• 7 December

  • Pierre Prévost, panorama painter (d. 1823)
  • Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Marshal of France (d. 1841)

• Sophie de Condorcet, political hostess and feminist (d. 1822)

• 15 April – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV (b. 1721)

• 11 September – Countess Dash, writer (born 1704)

• 12 September – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (b. 1683)

• 22 October – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer and violinist (murdered) (b. 1697)

• 23 October – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, naval officer (b. 1683)