title: 1772 in France
text: # 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)
  