1738 in France
Incumbents
Events
- 18 November – Signing of the Treaty of Vienna
Births
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- 31 May – Stanislas de Boufflers, statesman and writer (died 1815){{cite encyclopedia |title=Boufflers, Stanislas |encyclopedia=Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon |volume=3 |year=1915 |edition=2 |editor=Blangstrup, Chr. |editor-link=Christian Blangstrup |publisher=J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel |location=Copenhagen |language=da |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/3/0820.html |access-date=3 September 2015 }}
- 22 June – Jacques Delille, poet and translator (died 1813)
- 28 August – Etteilla, occult cartomancer (died 1791)
- Full date missing – Philippe-Étienne Lafosse, veterinarian (died 1820)
Deaths
- 6 January – Jean-Baptiste Labat, clergyman, botanist and writer (born 1663)
- 15 January – Claude de Beauharnais, nobleman (born 1680)
- 30 January – Benoît de Maillet, diplomat and natural historian (born 1656)
- 9 February – Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont (born 1662)
- 5 June – Isaac de Beausobre, exiled Protestant pastor (born 1659)
- 7 June – Antoine Crozat, proprietary owner of French Louisiana (born c.1655)
- 8 July – Jean-Pierre Nicéron, lexicographer (born 1685)
- Full date missing
- De Lafontaine, ballerina (born 1655)
- Jean-Louis d'Usson, ambassador (born 1672)
See also
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