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Events from the year 1770 in France.

• Monarch – Louis XV

• 16 May – 14-year-old Marie Antoinette of Austria marries Louis-Auguste (who in 1774 becomes King Louis XVI) at the Palace of Versailles

• 20 May – A stampede at a celebration of the newly wedded Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste in Paris kills more than a hundred people

• 3 June – The 7.5 '"UNIQ--templatestyles-0000000A-QINU"'Mw Port-au-Prince earthquake affects the French colony of Saint-Domingue with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 250 or more

• 14 June–3 October – Charles Messier observes Lexell's Comet as it passes closer to Earth than any other in recorded history

• 7 December – Louis XV issues the Edict of December, dismissing rebellious magistrates of the Parlements of Paris and the other 13 provinces

• 24 December – César Gabriel de Choiseul is dismissed from his position as Secretary of the Navy by the king

• Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles established

• Joseph-Louis Lagrange proves Bachet's conjecture

• The Baron d'Holbach's (anonymous) materialist work Le Système de la Nature ou Des Loix du Monde Physique et du Monde Moral is published

• 20 January – The new Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), the first purpose-built opera house in Paris, designed by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, is inaugurated with a performance of Rameau's Zoroastre

• 16 May – The new Opéra royal de Versailles, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, is inaugurated.

• 27 October – First performance of the opera Les deux avares, written by André Grétry, at Fontainebleau

• December – The Library of the Sorbonne in Paris is opened to the public

• The Théâtre Déjazet is established in Paris by the Comte d'Artois

• Anne Vallayer-Coster is admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the age of 26

• 5 February – Alexandre Brongniart, chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (died 1847)

• 21 February – Georges Mouton, Marshal of France (died 1838)

• 2 March – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (died 1826)

• 25 March – Antoine Richepanse, revolutionary general (died 1802)

• 10 May – Louis-Nicolas Davout, Marshal of France (died 1823)

• 18 December – Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France, Minister of War (died 1840)

Esprit Antoine Blanchard

• 14 March – Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet, clergyman and moralist (born 1697)
• 19 April – Esprit Antoine Blanchard, musician (born 1696)
• 25 April – Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (born 1700)
• 30 May – François Boucher, painter (born 1703)
• 3 August – Guillaume-François Rouelle, chemist and apothecary (born 1703)
• 28 November – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, historian (born 1685)
• 15 December – Pierre-Joseph Alary, ecclesiastic and writer (born 1689)