1788 in France

none June 2022 1788 Events from the year 1788 in France. Incumbents Monarch: Louis XVIBBC - History - King Louis XVI https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xvi.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 24 June 2022 Events thumb|300px|Day of the Tiles, 7 June 1788, by Alexandre Debelle, (Musée de la Révolution française) 7 June - Riots broke out in Grenoble, the Day of the Tiles. 21 July - Assembly of Vizille, the meeting of the Estates. 8 August - Louis XVI agreed to convene the Estates-General meeting in May 1789, for the first time since 1614. Births January to June 1 January - Étienne 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 1 July - Jean-Victor Poncelet, engineer and mathematician (died 1867) 5 September - Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, sinologist (died 1832) 24 December - Alexandre Guiraud, poet and novelist (died 1847) 31 December - Alphonse de Cailleux, painter and arts administrator (died 1876) 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-Étienne 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 3 July - François Jacquier, Franciscan mathematician and physicist (born 1711) 15 July - Jean Germain Drouais, painter (born 1763) 8 August - Louis François Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, Marshal of France (born 1696) 19 October - Louis Antoine de Gontaut, Marshal of France (born 1700) 6 December - Nicole-Reine Lepaute, astronomer (born 1723)Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie Joy Dorothy Harvey The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA772 2000 Taylor & Francis 978-0-415-92040-7 772 8 December - Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, Admiral (born 1729) See also France History Lists References 1788 Category:1780s in France France