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1788 in France
See also:
1787 in France,
other events of 1788
, 1789 in France.
Events from the year
1788 in
France
.
Contents
1
Events
2
Births
2.1
January to June
2.2
July to December
2.3
Full date unknown
3
Deaths
3.1
January to June
3.2
July to December
3.3
Full date unknown
4
References
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