1778 in France

Events from the year 1778 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch - Louis XVI

Events

6 February - Treaty of Alliance
27 July - Battle of Ushant

Births

Full date missing

Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, archaeologist

Deaths

9 January – Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny, Marshall of France
25 May – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, sculptor
30 May - Voltaire, writer, historian, and philosopher
20 June – Pierre Laclède, fur trader, founder of St. Louis
20 July – Élisabeth Duparc, soprano singer
3 August - François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault, botanist, zoologist and painter
5 August – Charles Clémencet, historian
28 September – Jean Girardet, painter