* 1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French military leader and politician ( d. 1794 )

In 1782 Antoine Beauvilliers, pastry chef to the future Louis XVIII, opened one of the most popular restaurants of the time – the Grande Taverne de Londres – in the arcades of the Palais-Royal.

French frigate Boudeuse ( 1766 ) | Boudeuse, of Louis Antoine de Bougainville

* 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France during the French Revolution.

Tomb of Philippe Pot, governor of Burgundy ( region ) | Burgundy under Louis XI, by Antoine Le Moiturier

Michel's known siblings included Delphine, Jean I ( c. 1507 – 77 ), Pierre, Hector, Louis, Bertrand, Jean II ( born 1522 ) and Antoine ( born 1523 ).

* 1729 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer ( d. 1811 )

In 1768 Pierre-Antoine Véron, a young astronomer accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of exploration, established the width of the Pacific with precision for the first time in history.

The guillotine ( called the " National Razor ") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ), and Madame Roland, as well as many others, such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade.

Europeans did not return until 1768, when Louis Antoine de Bougainville rediscovered the islands.

** Louis Antoine, Belgian miner / sect leader

* July 6 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1775 )

* June 26 – Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.

** Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1768 )

* March 21 – Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien ( executed ) ( b. 1772 )

* August 25 – Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just, French revolutionary ( d. 1794 )

* August 20 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator and military commander ( b. 1729 )

* May 10 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general ( d. 1809 )

* March 16 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo following a three-year circumnavigation of the world with the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile, with the loss of only seven out of 330 men ; among the returning crew is Jeanne Baré, the first woman known to have circumnavigated the globe.

* November 12 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator and military commander ( d. 1811 )

* Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered to be shredded and burned by King Louis XIV of France.

In the later 18th century, the published voyages of Captain James Cook and Louis Antoine de Bougainville seemed to open a glimpse into an unspoiled Edenic culture that still existed in the un-Christianized South Seas.

This voyage went to Brazil, where Banks made the first scientific description of a now common garden plant, bougainvillea ( named after Cook's French counterpart, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ), and to other parts of South America.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1664 – Fran &# 231 ; ois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( d. 1709 )

* 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1710 )

* 1717 – Louis François, Prince of Conti ( d. 1776 )

* 1764 – Louis Baraguey d ' Hilliers, French general ( d. 1816 )

* 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer ( d. 1997 )

* 1899 – Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver ( d. 1979 )

* 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer ( d. 1842 )

* 1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist ( d. 1972 )

* 778 – Louis the Pious ( d. 840 )

* 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

* 1682 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy ( d. 1712 )

* 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France ( d. 1793 )

* 1707 – Louis I of Spain ( d. 1724 )

* 1754 – Louis XVI of France ( d. 1793 )

* 1905 – Louis Jean Heydt, American actor ( d. 1960 )

* 1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist ( d. 1875 )

* 1821 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton ( d. 1892 )

* 1901 – Louis Armstrong, American trumpeter and singer ( d. 1971 )