- 1788 in France
"See also:"
1787 in France ,
other events of 1788,1789 in France .----
Events from the year
1788 inFrance .Events
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7 June - Riots broke out inGrenoble , theDay of the Tiles .
*21 July -Assembly of Vizille , the meeting of the Estates.
*8 August -Louis XVI agreed to convene theEstates-General meeting in May 1789, for the first time since 1614.Births
January to June
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1 January -Étienne Cabet , philosopher andutopian 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
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1 July -Jean-Victor Poncelet ,engineer andmathematician (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 andarts administrator (d.1876).Full date unknown
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Charles de Steuben , painter (d.1856).Deaths
January to June
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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
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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
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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 andArchbishop of Lyon (b.1713).
*Claude-Étienne Savary , orientalist, pioneer of Egyptology and translator of theQur'an (b.1750).References
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