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 (died 1867)

Deaths

• 9 January – Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny, Marshall of France (born 1689)
• 25 May – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1704)
• 30 May – Voltaire, writer, historian, and philosopher (born 1694)
• 20 June – Pierre Laclède, fur trader, founder of St. Louis (born 1729)
• 20 July – Élisabeth Duparc, soprano singer
• 3 August – François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault, botanist, zoologist and painter (born 1691)
• 5 August – Charles Clémencet, historian (born 1703)
• 28 September – Jean Girardet, painter (born 1709)

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