1778 in France

Events from the year 1778 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XVI

Events



 * 6 February – Treaty of Alliance
 * 27 July – Battle of Ushant

Full date missing

 * Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, archaeologist (died 1867)

Deaths

 * 30 May – Voltaire, writer, historian, and philosopher (born 1694)

Full date missing

 * François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault, botanist, zoologist and painter (born 1691)
 * Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny, Marshall of France (born 1689)
 * Pierre Laclède, fur trader, founder of St. Louis (born 1729)
 * Élisabeth Duparc, soprano singer
 * Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1704)
 * Charles Clémencet, historian (born 1703)
 * Jean Girardet, painter (born 1709)