1788 in France

"See also:"
1787 in France,
other events of 1788,
1789 in France.

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Events from the year 1788 in France.

Events

*7 June - Riots broke out in Grenoble, the Day of the Tiles.
*21 July - Assembly of Vizille, the meeting of the Estates.
*8 August - Louis XVI agreed to convene the Estates-General meeting in May 1789, for the first time since 1614.

Births

January to June

*1 January - Étienne Cabet, philosopher and utopian socialist (d.1856).
*6 January - Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin, jurist and political pamphleteer (d.1868).
*18 February - Alexandre Soumet, poet (d.1845).
*7 March - Antoine César Becquerel, scientist (d.1878).
*12 March - Pierre Jean David, sculptor (d.1856).
*22 March - Pierre Joseph Pelletier, chemist (d.1842).
*13 April - Auguste François Chomel, pathologist (d.1858).
*10 May - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist (d.1827).

July to December

*1 July - Jean-Victor Poncelet, engineer and mathematician (d.1867).
*5 September - Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, sinologist (d.1832).
*24 December - Alexandre Guiraud, poet and novelist (d.1847).
*31 December - Alphonse de Cailleux, painter and arts administrator (d.1876).

Full date unknown

*Charles de Steuben, painter (d.1856).

Deaths

January to June

*14 January - François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Admiral (b.1722).
*17 February - Maurice Quentin de La Tour, painter (b.1704).
*12 April - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer (b.1720).
*16 April - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author (b.1707).

July to December

*3 July - François Jacquier, [Franciscan] mathematician and physicist (b.1711).
*15 July - Jean Germain Drouais, painter (b.1763).
*8 August - Louis François Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, Marshal of France (b.1696).
*8 December - Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, Admiral (b.1729).

Full date unknown

*Jean-Louis Alléon-Dulac, naturalist (b.1723).
*Louis Antoine de Gontaut, Marshal of France (b.1700).
*Nicole-Reine Lepaute, astronomer (b.1723).
*Antoine de Montazet, theologian and Archbishop of Lyon (b.1713).
*Claude-Étienne Savary, orientalist, pioneer of Egyptology and translator of the Qur'an (b.1750).

References