Events from the year 1738 in France
Incumbents
Events
- 18 November – Signing of the Treaty of Vienna
Births
- 31 May – Stanislas de Boufflers, statesman and writer (died 1815)[2]
- 22 June – Jacques Delille, poet and translator (died 1813)
- 28 August – Etteilla, occult cartomancer (died 1791)
- Full date missing – Philippe-Étienne Lafosse, veterinarian (died 1820)
Deaths
- 6 January – Jean-Baptiste Labat, clergyman, botanist and writer (born 1663)
- 15 January – Claude de Beauharnais, nobleman (born 1680)
- 30 January – Benoît de Maillet, diplomat and natural historian (born 1656)
- 9 February – Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont (born 1662)
- 5 June – Isaac de Beausobre, exiled Protestant pastor (born 1659)
- 7 June – Antoine Crozat, proprietary owner of French Louisiana (born c.1655)
- 8 July – Jean-Pierre Nicéron, lexicographer (born 1685)
- Full date missing
- De Lafontaine, ballerina (born 1655)
- Jean-Louis d'Usson, ambassador (born 1672)
See also
References
- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Boufflers, Stanislas". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
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