1758 in France

Events from the year 1758 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Louis XV^[1]

Events

The Seven Years' War

• 29 April – Battle of Cuddalore
• 12 June – Battle of Rheinberg
• 23 June – Battle of Krefeld
• 3 August – Battle of Negapatam
• 7–16 August – Raid on Cherbourg
• The French and Indian War, the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War

Popular culture

Theatre

• Le Père de famille, play by Denis Diderot

Births

• 4 February – Pierre Gardel, ballet dancer, violinist, and composer (died 1840)
• 28 February – Nicolas François, Count Mollien, financier (died 1850)
• 22 March – Jean-Charles Monnier, military officer (died 1816)
• 6 May – Maximilien Robespierre, politician (died 1794)^[2]
• 8 July – Pierre Joseph Duhem, physician and politician (died 1807)
• 6 September – Pierre-Augustin Hulin, general (died 1841)
• 5 November – Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, botanist (died 1831)^[3]

Full date unknown

• Sophie Hus, stage actress (died after 1831)

Deaths

• 18 January – François Nicole, mathematician, 74
• 18 February – Isaac-Joseph Berruyer, historian, 76
• 2 March – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, archbishop, 77
• 8 April – Louise Anne de Bourbon, countess, 62
• 22 April – Antoine de Jussieu, naturalist, 61
• 30 April – François d'Agincourt, harpsichordist, organist, and composer, 74?
• August – François Hutin, painter, sculptor, and engraver, 72?

References

1. ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
2. ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
3. ^ Blangstrup, Chr. (ed.) (1917). "Dupetit-Thouars" (in Danish). Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon. Vol. 6. 2 ed. Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 526. Retrieved 21 November 2014.