1758 in France
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Events from the year 1758 in France.
Incumbents
Events
The Seven Years' War
- 29 April â Battle of Cuddalore
- 12 June â Battle of Rheinberg
- 23 June â Battle of Krefeld
- 3 August â Battle of Negapatam
- 7â16 August â 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 â Pierre Gardel, ballet dancer, violinist, and composer (died 1840)
- 28 February â Nicolas François, Count Mollien, financier (died 1850)
- 22 March â Jean-Charles Monnier, military officer (died 1816)
- 6 May â Maximilien Robespierre, politician (died 1794)[2]
- 8 July â Pierre Joseph Duhem, physician and politician (died 1807)
- 6 September â Pierre-Augustin Hulin, general (died 1841)
- 5 November â Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, botanist (died 1831)[3]
Full date unknown
- Sophie Hus, stage actress (died after 1831)
Deaths
- 18 January â François Nicole, mathematician, 74
- 18 February â Isaac-Joseph Berruyer, historian, 76
- 2 March â Pierre Guérin de Tencin, archbishop, 77
- 8 April â Louise Anne de Bourbon, countess, 62
- 22 April â Antoine de Jussieu, naturalist, 61
- 30 April â François d'Agincourt, harpsichordist, organist, and composer, 74?
- August â François Hutin, painter, sculptor, and engraver, 72?
