Events from the year 1594 in
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
Incumbents
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Monarch
A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power i ...
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Henry IV
Events
*6 to 17 September –
Siege of Morlaix
*1 to 19 November –
Siege of Fort Crozon
The siege of Fort Crozon or the siege of El Leon was a land and sea engagement that took place as part of Spain's Brittany Campaign late in the French wars of religion and the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).Fissel pp 229-30 The siege was fought ...
Births
*June –
Nicolas Poussin, painter (d. 1665)
*8 December –
Pierre Petit, astronomer, physicist, mathematician and instrument maker (d. 1677)
Full date missing
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Charles Audran
Charles Audran (1594–1674) was a French engraver.
Life
Charles Audran was the first of the Audran family who became eminent in the art of engraving. He was born in Paris in 1594. In his boyhood he showed a great disposition for the art. He re ...
, engraver (d. 1674)
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Noël Quillerier
Noël Quillerier (1594 (baptised August 1) - April 3, 1669) was a French painter who also served as a ''valet de chambre'' for the king. A native of Orléans, in 1631 he married Charlotte Lerambert, the sister of sculptor Louis Lerambert. Their ...
, painter (d. 1669)
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Pierre de Saint-Joseph, French Cistercian monk, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1662)
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Jacques de Serisay, poet, intendant of the duc de
La Rochefoucauld, and the founding director of the
Académie française (d. 1653)
Deaths
*29 December –
Jean Châtel Jean Châtel (1575 – 29 December 1594) attempted to assassinate King Henry IV of France on 27 December 1594. He was the son of a cloth merchant and was aged 19 when executed on 29 December.
On 27 December 1594, Châtel managed to gain entry t ...
(b. 1575)
Full date missing
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Charles II de Bourbon-Vendôme
Charles II of Bourbon (1562–1594), known as ''Cardinal de Vendôme'' and later as ''Cardinal de Bourbon'', was a prince of the blood of the House of Bourbon. When his Protestant cousin became King Henry IV of France in 1589, he raised the hopes ...
, prince and cardinal (b. 1562)
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Claude Dupuy jurist, humanist and bibliophile, (b. 1545)
See also
References
1590s in France
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