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| 1738 |
| | | In the Treaty of Vienna, France accepts the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles VI – the last of the European powers to do so | |
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| 1741 |
| | | Spain, now an ally of France, joins in the war against Austria | |
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| 1744 |
| | | France formally declares war on Britain half way through the War of the Austrian Succession | |
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| 1744 |
| | | Bad weather causes the French to abandon a plan to invade Britain with the Scottish pretender Charles Edward Stuart | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Maurice de Saxe, with a French army including an Irish brigade, defeats British, Austrian and Dutch forces at Fontenoy | |
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| 1746 |
| | | Monsieur Passemont constructs in Paris a millennium clock which can record the date in any year up to AD 9999 | |
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| 1749 |
| | | A French official travels down the Ohio valley, placing markers to claim it for France | |
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| 1751 |
| | | A great French undertaking by Denis Diderot, his 28-volume Encyclopédie, begins publication | |
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| 1751 |
| | | French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin returns to the subject matter that first took his interest, still life | |
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| 1752 |
| | | French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard wins the cherished Prix de Rome at the age of 20 | |
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