Events from the year 1552 in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

– Henry II

Events

*15 January – Signing of the Treaty of Chambord *

Cour des monnaies The Cour des monnaies (, ''Currency Court'') was one of the sovereign courts of ''Ancien Régime'' France. It was set up in 1552. It and the other ''Ancien Régime'' tribunals were suppressed in 1791 after the French Revolution. Origins The reg ...

is established *October 1552 to January 1553 – Siege of Metz

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*8 February – Agrippa d'Aubigné, poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler (d. 1630) *23 October –

Odet de Turnèbe Odet de Turnèbe (23 October 1552 – 20 July 1581) was a French people, French dramatist. Biography Odet de Turnèbe was born in Paris to Greek scholar Adrien Turnèbe. He received a solid education and was known, from an early age, for his inte ...

, dramatist (d. 1581)

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Jean Bertaut Jean Bertaut (1552 – 8 June 1611), French poet, was born at Caen. Life He figures with Philippe Desportes in the disdainful couplet of Boileau on Ronsard: "''Ce poëte orgueilleux, trébuché de si haut,'' ''Rendit plus retenus Desport ...

, poet (d. 1611) * Charles David, architect (d. 1650) *

François Grudé François Grudé (born 1552, Le Mans), lord of la Croix du Maine, was a French writer and bibliographer. He wrote under the Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin ...

, writer and bibliographer *

Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villiers-St-Paul (1552 – 1636) was a French diplomat. Although he came from a Calvinist family, who had been exiled during the French Wars of Religion, Jean, through cultivating connections with Henry IV eventually was r ...

, diplomat (d. 1636) *

Antoine de Pluvinel Antoine de Pluvinel (1552, Crest, Dauphiné - 24 August 1620) was the first of the French riding masters, and has had great influence on modern dressage. He wrote ''L’Instruction du Roy en l’exercice de monter à cheval'' ("instruction of t ...

, riding master (d. 1620)

Deaths

*8 January –

Eustorg de Beaulieu Eustorg de Beaulieu or Hector de Beaulieu (around 1495 – 8 January 1552) is a French poet, composer and pastor. He was one of the first French authors to convert to protestantism Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the t ...

, poet, composer and pastor (b. around 1495) *1 February –

Charles de Solier, comte de Morette Charles de Solier, comte de Morette (1480 – 1 February 1552), the son of Aubertin de Solier, comte de Morette (1465–1545), was a French soldier and diplomat as well as a long-serving ''gentilhomme de la chambre'' to Francis I of France, Franc ...

, soldier and diplomat (b. 1480) *2 December – Claude d'Annebault, military officer (b. 1495)

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Pierre du Chastel Pierre du Chastel or Duchâtel (died 1552) was a French humanist, librarian to Francis I of France. Pierre Duchâtel u Chastel, Castellanus, or Pierre Castellan was born in Arc-en-Barrois around 1480, and was chaplain to King François I from 1537 ...

, humanist, librarian (born around 1480) *

René I, Viscount of Rohan René I de Rohan, (1516–1552) 18th Viscount of Rohan, Viscount and Prince de Léon, and Marquis de Blain married Isabella of Navarre daughter of jure uxoris King John III of Navarre and Catherine of Navarre, Queen of Navarre. Life René I was ...

(b. 1516)

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