Events from the year 1738 in
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
Incumbents
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Monarch
A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...
–
Louis XV
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reache ...
Events
*18 November – Signing of the
Treaty of Vienna
Births
*31 May –
Stanislas de Boufflers, statesman and writer (died 1815).
*22 June –
Jacques Delille
The French poet Jacques Delille (; 22 June 1738 at Aigueperse in Auvergne – 1 May 1813, in Paris) came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening. ...
, poet and translator (died 1813)
*28 August –
Etteilla
"Etteilla", the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1 March 1738 – 12 December 1791), was the French occultist and tarot-researcher, who was the first to develop an interpretation concept for the tarot cards and made a significant contribution ...
, occult cartomancer (died 1791)
*Full date missing –
Philippe-Étienne Lafosse, veterinarian (died 1820)
Deaths
*6 January –
Jean-Baptiste Labat
Jean-Baptiste Labat (sometimes called, simply, Père Labat) (1663 – 6 January 1738) was a French clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer, and landowner.
Life
Labat was born and died in Paris. He entered the ...
, clergyman, botanist and writer (born 1663)
*15 January –
Claude de Beauharnais, nobleman (born 1680)
*30 January –
Benoît de Maillet
Benoît de Maillet (Saint-Mihiel, 12 April 1656 – Marseille, 30 January 1738) was a well-travelled French diplomat and natural historian. He was French consul general at Cairo, and overseer in the Levant. He formulated an evolutionary hypothesi ...
, diplomat and natural historian (born 1656)
*9 February –
Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine
Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine (1 July 1662 – 9 February 1738) was a member of the House of Lorraine and was the Abbess of Remiremont. She was a member of the household of ''Le Grand Dauphin'' and was the supposed wife of her cousin the '' ...
, Abbess of Remiremont (born 1662)
*5 June –
Isaac de Beausobre
Isaac de Beausobre (8 March 1659 – 5 June 1738) was a French Protestant churchman, now best known for his two-volume history of Manichaeism, ''Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manichéisme'' . Life
Beausobre was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres. ...
, exiled Protestant pastor (born 1659)
*7 June –
Antoine Crozat
Antoine Crozat, Marquis du Châtel (c. 1655 – 7 June 1738), French founder of an immense fortune, was the first proprietary owner of French Louisiana, from 1712 to 1717.
Career
Antoine Crozat and his brother Pierre Crozat were born in Toulo ...
,
proprietary owner of
French Louisiana
The term French Louisiana refers to two distinct regions:
* first, to Louisiana (New France), colonial French Louisiana, comprising the massive, middle section of North America claimed by Early Modern France, France during the 17th and 18th centu ...
(born c.1655)
*8 July –
Jean-Pierre Nicéron
Jean-Pierre Nicéron (11 March 1685 – 8 July 1738) was a French lexicographer.
Biography
Nicéron was born in Paris, a relative of the mathematician and Minim friar Jean François Niceron. After his studies at the Collège Mazarin, he joined t ...
, lexicographer (born 1685)
*Full date missing
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De Lafontaine Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, also known as La Fontaine (1655–1738), was a French ballerina and is regarded as the first female professional ballet dancer. Her first name is unknown.
Together with Jean-Baptiste Lully and others, De Lafontaine part ...
, ballerina (born 1655)
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Jean-Louis d'Usson, ambassador (born 1672)
See also
References
1730s in France
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