1738 in France
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Events from the year 1738 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 18 November â Signing of the Treaty of Vienna
Births
- 31 May â Stanislas de Boufflers, statesman and writer (died 1815)[2]
- 22 June â Jacques Delille, poet and translator (died 1813)
- 28 August â Etteilla, occult cartomancer (died 1791)
Full date unknown
- Philippe-Ãtienne Lafosse, veterinarian (died 1820)
Deaths
- 6 January â Jean-Baptiste Labat, clergyman, botanist and writer (born 1663)
- 15 January â Claude de Beauharnais, nobleman (born 1680)
- 30 January â Benoît de Maillet, diplomat and natural historian (born 1656)
- 9 February â Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont (born 1662)
- 5 June â Isaac de Beausobre, exiled Protestant pastor (born 1659)
- 7 June â Antoine Crozat, proprietary owner of French Louisiana (born c.1655)
- 8 July â Jean-Pierre Nicéron, lexicographer (born 1685)
Full date unknown
- De Lafontaine, ballerina (born 1655)
- Jean-Louis d'Usson, ambassador (born 1672)
