1738 in France

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 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)