1758 in France

Events from the year 1758 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch - Louis XV

Events

The [Seven Years' War]

29 April - Battle of Cuddalore
12 June - Battle of Rheinberg
23 June - Battle of Krefeld
3 August - Battle of Negapatam
7–16 August - 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 - Pierre Gardel, ballet dancer, violinist, and composer
28 February - Nicolas François, Count Mollien, financier
22 March - Jean-Charles Monnier, military officer
6 May - Maximilien Robespierre, politician
8 July - Pierre Joseph Duhem, physician and politician
6 September - Pierre-Augustin Hulin, general
5 November - Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, botanist

Full date unknown

Sophie Hus, stage actress

Deaths

18 January - François Nicole, mathematician, 74
18 February - Isaac-Joseph Berruyer, historian, 76
2 March - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, archbishop, 77
8 April - Louise Anne de Bourbon, countess, 62
22 April - Antoine de Jussieu, naturalist, 61
30 April - François d'Agincourt, harpsichordist, organist, and composer, 74?
August - François Hutin, painter, sculptor, and engraver, 72?