Events from the year 1788 in France.
Incumbents Monarch: Louis XVI
Events
7 June - Riots broke out in Grenoble, the Day of the Tiles. 21 July - Assembly of Vizille, the meeting of the Estates. 8 August - Louis XVI agreed to convene the Estates-General meeting in May 1789, for the first time since 1614.
Births
January to June 1 January - Étienne Cabet, philosopher and utopian socialist (died 1856) 6 January - Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin, jurist and political pamphleteer (died 1868) 18 February - Alexandre Soumet, poet (died 1845) 7 March - Antoine César Becquerel, scientist (died 1878) 12 March - Pierre Jean David, sculptor (died 1856) 22 March - Pierre Joseph Pelletier, chemist (died 1842) 13 April - Auguste François Chomel, pathologist (died 1858) 18 April - Charles de Steuben, painter (died 1856) 10 May - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, physicist (died 1827)
July to December 1 July - Jean-Victor Poncelet, engineer and mathematician (died 1867) 5 September - Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, sinologist (died 1832) 24 December - Alexandre Guiraud, poet and novelist (died 1847) 31 December - Alphonse de Cailleux, painter and arts administrator (died 1876)
Deaths
January to June 14 January - François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Admiral (born 1722) 25 January - Jean-Louis Alléon-Dulac, naturalist (born 1723) 4 February - Claude-Étienne Savary, orientalist, pioneer of Egyptology and translator of the Qur'an (born 1750) 17 February - Maurice Quentin de La Tour, painter (born 1704) 12 April - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer (born 1720) 16 April - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author (born 1707) 2 May - Antoine de Montazet, theologian and Archbishop of Lyon (born 1713)
July to December 3 July - François Jacquier, Franciscan mathematician and physicist (born 1711) 15 July - Jean Germain Drouais, painter (born 1763) 8 August - Louis François Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, Marshal of France (born 1696) 19 October - Louis Antoine de Gontaut, Marshal of France (born 1700) 6 December - Nicole-Reine Lepaute, astronomer (born 1723) 8 December - Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, Admiral (born 1729)
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