1738 in France
Events from the year 1738 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 18 November – Signing of the Treaty of Vienna
Births
- 31 May - Stanislas de Boufflers, statesman and writer
- 22 June - Jacques Delille, poet and translator
- 28 August - Etteilla, occult cartomancer
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 6 January - Jean-Baptiste Labat, clergyman, botanist and writer
- 15 January - Claude de Beauharnais, nobleman
- 30 January - Benoît de Maillet, diplomat and natural historian
- 9 February - Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont
- 5 June - Isaac de Beausobre, exiled Protestant pastor
- 7 June - Antoine Crozat, proprietary owner of French Louisiana
- 8 July - Jean-Pierre Nicéron, lexicographer
Full date unknown
- De Lafontaine, ballerina
- Jean-Louis d'Usson, ambassador