1788 in France

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Events from the year 1788 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XVI^[1]

Events

• 7 June - Riots broke out in Grenoble, the Day of the Tiles.
• 21 July - Assembly of Vizille, the meeting of the Estates.
• 8 August -
  Estates-General
  meeting in May 1789, for the first time since 1614.

Births

January to June

• 1 January -
  utopian socialist (died 1856
  )
• 6 January - Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin, jurist and political pamphleteer (died 1868)
• 18 February - Alexandre Soumet, poet (died 1845)
• 7 March - Antoine César Becquerel, scientist (died 1878)
• 12 March -
  Pierre Jean David, sculptor (died 1856
  )
• 22 March - Pierre Joseph Pelletier, chemist (died 1842)
• 13 April -
  pathologist (died 1858
  )
• 18 April - Charles de Steuben, painter (died 1856)
• 10 May - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist (died 1827)

July to December

• 1 July - Jean-Victor Poncelet, engineer and mathematician (died 1867)
• 5 September -
  sinologist (died 1832
  )
• 24 December - Alexandre Guiraud, poet and novelist (died 1847)
• 31 December -
  arts administrator (died 1876
  )

• 14 January - François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Admiral (born 1722)
• 25 January -
  naturalist (born 1723
  )
• 4 February -
  Qur'an (born 1750
  )
• 17 February - Maurice Quentin de La Tour, painter (born 1704)
• 12 April -
  Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer (born 1720
  )
• 16 April - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author (born 1707)
• 2 May -
  Archbishop of Lyon (born 1713
  )

• 3 July -
  Franciscan mathematician and physicist (born 1711
  )
• 15 July - Jean Germain Drouais, painter (born 1763)
• 8 August -
  Louis François Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, Marshal of France (born 1696
  )
• 19 October -
  Louis Antoine de Gontaut, Marshal of France (born 1700
  )
• 6 December - Nicole-Reine Lepaute, astronomer (born 1723)^[2]
• 8 December -
  Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, Admiral (born 1729
  )