Events from the year 1778 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Louis XVI
Events
6 February – Treaty of Alliance 27 July – Battle of Ushant Société royale de médecine established by a decree of King Louis XVI.
Births
Full date missing Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, archaeologist (died 1867)
Deaths
9 January – Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny, Marshall of France (born 1689) 25 May – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1704) 30 May – Voltaire, writer, historian, and philosopher (born 1694) 20 June – Pierre Laclède, fur trader, founder of St. Louis (born 1729) 20 July – Élisabeth Duparc, soprano singer 3 August – François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault, botanist, zoologist and painter (born 1691) 5 August – Charles Clémencet, historian (born 1703) 28 September – Jean Girardet, painter (born 1709)
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