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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

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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 IV


Events

* Early January: The is opened in
La Flèche La Flèche () is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley. It is the sub-prefecture of the South-Sarthe, the chief district and the chief city of a canton, and the second most po ...
* June:
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons Pierre Dugua de Mons (or Du Gua de Monts; c. 1558 Р1628) was a French merchant, explorer and colonizer. A Calvinist, he was born in the Ch̢teau de Mons, in Royan, Saintonge (southwestern France) and founded the first permanent French sett ...
, establishes a settlement on Saint Croix Island - one of the first attempts by France at colonization in the territory they called
l'Acadie Acadia (french: link=no, Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River. During much of the 17th and early 18t ...


Births

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April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...
– Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675) *
May 10 Events Pre-1600 * 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. *1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
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Jean Mairet Jean (de) Mairet (10 May 160431 January 1686) was a classical french dramatist who wrote both tragedies and comedies. Life He was born at Besançon, and went to Paris to study at the Collège des Grassins about 1625. In that year he produced ...
, classical dramatist who wrote both tragedies and comedies (d.
1686 Events January–March * January 3 – In Madras (now Chennai) in India, local residents employed by the East India Company threaten to boycott their jobs after corporate administrator William Gyfford imposes a house tax on res ...
) * May 17 –
Vincent Baron Vincent Baron (17 May 1604 – 21 January 1674) was a French Dominican theologian and preacher. Biography He was born at Martres, in the département of the Haute-Garonne, France, 17 May 1604, and died in Paris on 21 January 1674. At the age of ...
, Dominican theologian writer (d.
1674 Events January–March * January 2 – The French West India Company is dissolved after less than 10 years. * January 7 – In the Chinese Empire, General Wu Sangui leads troops into the Giuzhou province, and soon takes cont ...
) * August 4 –
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac (4 August 1604 in Paris – 27 July 1676) was a French author and cleric. The father of François Hédelin was Claude Hédelin, a lawyer at the Parliament, and his mother Catherine Paré, the daughter of the ...
, author (d.
1676 Events January–March * January 29 – Feodor III of Russia, Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia. * January 31 – Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the oldest institution of higher education in Central America, is fo ...
) * October 22 – Simon Le Moyne, French missionary (d.
1665 Events January–March * January 5 – The ''Journal des sçavans'' begins publication of the first scientific journal in France. * February 15 – Molière's comedy '' Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre'', based on the Spanis ...
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Louis, Count of Soissons Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons (May 1604 Р6 July 1641) was the son of Charles de Bourbon, Count of Soissons and Anne de Montafi̩. A second cousin of Louis XIII of France he was a '' prince du Sang'', those considered part of the Roya ...
(d. 1641) * Pierre Thierry, organ builder (d. 1665) *
Philippe Habert Philippe Habert (1604 – 26 July 1637) was a French poet. Habert was born in Paris and was the brother to Germain Habert and cousin of Henri Louis Habert de Montmor, as well as a friend of Valentin Conrart. Philippe was also one of the first me ...
, poet (d. 1637) *
Olivier Patru Olivier Patru (1604 – 16 January 1681) was a French lawyer and writer. He was born and died in Paris. External links * ''Œuvres diverses'' on the Cujas Library Cujas Library (french: Bibliothèque Cujas), named after the French jurist and ...
, lawyer and writer (d. 1681) *
Charles Beaubrun Charles Beaubrun (Charles Bobrun) (1604–1692) was a French portrait painter active in Paris between 1630 and 1670. Life Charles Beaubrun was born at Amboise, a member of a distinguished family of painters. He studied under his uncle Louis ...
, painter (d. 1692)


Probable

* Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (d.
1676 Events January–March * January 29 – Feodor III of Russia, Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia. * January 31 – Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the oldest institution of higher education in Central America, is fo ...
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Deaths

* February 13– Catherine of Bourbon, regeant of
Béarn The Béarn (; ; oc, Bearn or ''Biarn''; eu, Bearno or ''Biarno''; or ''Bearnia'') is one of the traditional provinces of France, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in southwest France. Along with the three Bas ...
(b. 1559) *
March 13 Events Pre-1600 *624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh. *1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War. *1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
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Arnaud d'Ossat Arnaud d'Ossat (20 July 1537 – 13 March 1604) was a French diplomat and writer and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, whose personal tact and diplomatic skill steered the perilous course of French diplomacy with the papacy in the reign ...
, French diplomat and writer (b.
1537 __NOTOC__ Year 1537 ( MDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January ** Bigod's Rebellion, an uprising by Roman Catholics against Henry ...
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October 25 Events Pre-1600 * 285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers. * 473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II a ...
– Claude de La Trémoille, French noble (b.
1566 __NOTOC__ Year 1566 ( MDLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 7 – Pope Pius V succeeds Pope Pius IV, as the 225th pope. * Febr ...
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Étienne Dupérac Étienne Dupérac (or du Pérac) (–March 1604) was a French architect, painter, engraver, and garden designer.Nicolas Barnaud, writer, physician and alchemist (b. 1538) *November – , mathematician and astronomer (born c. 1510) *
Gabriel Bounin Gabriel Bounin was a French author and dramaturgist of the 16th century. He was a lawyer of Châteauroux in Berry. In 1561, Gabriel Bounin published ''La Soltane'', a tragedy highlighting the role of Roxelane (with no reliable sources or proof) ...
, French author and dramaturgist (b. 1520) *, Lawyer and philologist (b. 1531 in
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