Famous Weddings
Thomas Paine
Mar 26 Political activist Thomas Paine (34) weds second wife Elizabeth Ollive
Louis XVIII
May 14 King of France Louis XVIII weds princess Maria Giuseppina of Savoy at the Palace of Versailles
- Dec 16 Chemist Antione Lavoisier (28) marries Marie-Anne Paulze (13), the couple go on to make major discoveries in chemistry together