1758 in France explained

Events from the year 1758 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Louis XV^[1]

Events

• 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]
• precise 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?

Notes and References

1. Web site: BBC - History - King Louis XV . www.bbc.co.uk . 17 June 2022.
2. Web site: BBC - History - Historic Figures: Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) . www.bbc.co.uk . 17 June 2022.
3. Encyclopedia: Dupetit-Thouars . 526 . . 6 . 1917 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 21 November 2014 .