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Events from the year 1584 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 III
Events
*31 December –Treaty of Joinville
The Treaty of Joinville was signed in secret on 31 December 1584 by the Catholic League, led by France's first family of Catholic nobles, the House of Guise, and Habsburg Spain.
Treaty provisions
In the treaty:
* Philip II of Spain agreed to fin ...
Births
Full date missing
*André Duchesne
André Duchesne (; sometimes spelled ''Du Chesne'', Latinized ''Andreas Chesneus'', ''Andreas Quercetanus'', or ''Andreas Querneus''; May 158430 May 1640) was a French geographer and historian, generally styled the father of French history.
Duch ...
, historian and geographer (died 1640
Events
January–March
* January 6 – The Siege of Salses ends almost six months after it had started on June 9, 1639, with the French defenders surrendering to the Spanish attackers.
* January 17 – A naval battle over ...
).
*Mathieu Molé
Mathieu Molé (1584 – 3 January 1656) was a French statesman.
Biography
The son of Edouard Molé (d. 1614), who was for a time ''procureur-général'', he was educated at the University of Orléans. Admitted conseiller in 1606, he was ''pré ...
, statesman (died 1656)
Deaths
Full date missing
*Claude de La Baume
Claude de La Baume (1534–1584) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Biography
Claude de La Baume was born in Franche-Comté in 1534, the son of Claude de La Baume, baron of Saint-Sorlin, and his second wife, Guillemette d' Igny.
He ...
, bishop and cardinal (born 1534)
*François Dubois
François Dubois ( 1529 – 24 August 1584) was a French Huguenot painter of the Fontainebleau School.
Biography
Dubois was born around 1529 in Amiens, in the province of Picardy. He was likely related to the anatomist Jacques Dubois.
Dubois f ...
, painter (born 1529)
*Gentian Hervetus
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Gentian Hervetus (Hervet) (1499 at Olivet, near Orléans – 12 September 1584 at Reims) was a French Roman Catholic theologian, humanist and controversialist.
Life
After studying the humanities at Orléans, he went to Paris, where he beca ...
, theologian (born 1499)
*Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac
Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac (1529–1584) was a French jurist and poet.
Life
He was born at Toulouse to an old family of the magistracy. He studied law there with Jacques Cujas, and afterwards at Padua.
In 1548 he was admitted to the bar at ...
, jurist and poet (born 1529)
* Pierre Reymond, enamelist (born 1513)
* Paul de Foix, prelate and diplomat (born 1528)
See also
References
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