1725 in France

Events from the year 1725 in France.

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Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s
See also:	Other events of 1725 History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV

Events

• 16 September – The Treaty of Hanover is signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia.
• 1725–1730 - Freemasonry is established in France as an English import.

Births

• 25 January – Antoine Court de Gébelin, French pastor (d. 1784)
• 26 February – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
• 12 May – Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (d. 1785)
• 12 May – Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
• 21 August – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)
• 5 September – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
• 12 September – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
• 16 September – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
• 12 October – Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810)

Deaths

• 6 April – Étienne Chauvin, French Protestant divine (b. 1640)
• 16 September – Antoine V de Gramont, French military leader (b. 1672)
• 10 October – Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. c.1643)
• 7 December – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)