174717481749
Rameau and his work
La Pouplinière separated from his first wife.
Première of Zaïs at the Académie royale de musique.
Première of Pygmalion at the Académie royale de musique.
Première of Surprises de l'Amour (first version) at Versailles, in the Théâtre des Petits-Appartements.
Revival of Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour at the Académie royale de musique.
Rameau and his period
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ending the War of the Austrian Succession.
The architect Gabriel makes plans for the redevelopment of Versailles.
Haydn composes his first mass setting, Missa Rorate caeli desuper.
Mondonville and Capperan Royer become directors of the Concert Spirituel.
At Versailles, the Théâtre des Petits-Appartements is moved to the Ambassadors' Staircase.
Première of Royer's Almasis in the Théâtre des Petits-Appartements.
Début at the Académie royale de musique of the dancer Gaëtan Vestris (1729–1808).
Montesquieu's De l'esprit des lois published in Geneva.
Voltaire's Zadig ou La Destinée published in London.