1778 in France
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Events from the year 1778 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 6 February â Treaty of Alliance
- 27 July â Battle of Ushant
Births
Full date missing
- Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, archaeologist (died 1867)[2]
Deaths
- 9 January â Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny, Marshall of France (born 1689)
- 25 May â Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1704)
- 30 May â Voltaire, writer, historian, and philosopher (born 1694)[3]
- 20 June â Pierre Laclède, fur trader, founder of St. Louis (born 1729)
- 20 July â Ãlisabeth Duparc, soprano singer
- 3 August â François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault, botanist, zoologist and painter (born 1691)
- 5 August â Charles Clémencet, historian (born 1703)
- 28 September â Jean Girardet, painter (born 1709)
