Events from the year 1788 in France.
Incumbents
Events
Births
January to June
- 1 January - ÃÂtienne Cabet, philosopher and 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 - Auguste François Chomel, pathologist (died 1858)
- 18 April - Charles de Steuben, painter (died 1856)
- 10 May - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist (died 1827)
July to December
Deaths
January to June
- 14 January - François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Admiral (born 1722)
- 25 January - Jean-Louis Alléon-Dulac, naturalist (born 1723)
- 4 February - Claude-ÃÂtienne Savary, orientalist, pioneer of Egyptology and translator of the 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 - Antoine de Montazet, theologian and Archbishop of Lyon (born 1713)
July to December
See also
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