Events from the year 1738 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XV
Events 18 November – Signing of the Treaty of Vienna
Births
31 May – Stanislas de Boufflers, statesman and writer (died 1815) 22 June – Jacques Delille, poet and translator (died 1813) 28 August – Etteilla, occult cartomancer (died 1791)
Full date unknown 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 unknown De Lafontaine, ballerina (born 1655) Jean-Louis d'Usson, ambassador (born 1672)
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