Events from the year 1776 in France
- June–July – Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans, demonstrates his steamboat Palmipède on the Doubs (river).[2]
- August – The guild organisation Marchandes de modes is founded.
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- 1 April – Sophie Germain, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1831)
- 4 August – Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (died 1847)
- Peter Gilles, composer (died 1839)[3]
- 4 May – Jacques Saly, sculptor (born 1717)
- 25 August – Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix, writer and playwright (born 1698)
- 17 October – Pierre François le Courayer, writer (born 1681)
- Augustin Roux, encyclopedist (born 1726)
- Marie Durand, Protestant martyr (d. 1711)
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