Events from the year 1758 in France.
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Incumbents
editEvents
editThe Seven Years' War
edit- 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
editTheatre
edit- Le Père de famille, play by Denis Diderot
Births
edit- 4 February – Pierre Gardel, ballet dancer, violinist, and composer (died 1840)
- 28 February – Nicolas François, Count Mollien, financier (died 1850)
- 22 March – Jean-Charles Monnier, military officer (died 1816)
- 6 May – Maximilien Robespierre, politician (died 1794)[2]
- 8 July – Pierre Joseph Duhem, physician and politician (died 1807)
- 6 September – Pierre-Augustin Hulin, general (died 1841)
- 5 November – Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, botanist (died 1831)[3]
- precise date unknown – Sophie Hus, stage actress (died after 1831)
Deaths
edit- 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?
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1917). "Dupetit-Thouars". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 6 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 526. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
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