Events from the year 1758 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XV
Events
The Seven Years' War 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
Theatre Le Père de famille, play by Denis Diderot
Births
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) 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)
Full date unknown Sophie Hus, stage actress (died after 1831)
Deaths 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?
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