title: 1785 in France
text: # 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
  