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Events from the year 1609 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

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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

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Action of 29 June 1609 The Action of 29 June 1609 was an attack on Tunisian ships on 29 June 1609 by a combined fleet of 8 Spanish galleons and 3 smaller vessels, under Admiral ''Don'' Luis Fajardo, and a French squadron of 3 vessels, under Beaulieu. The raid was mad ...


Births

* 25 November –
Henrietta Maria Henrietta Maria (french: link=no, Henriette Marie; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until Charles was executed on 30 January 1649. She wa ...
, Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1669)


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Louis Boullogne Louis Boullogne (; August 1609, in Picardy – June 1674, in Paris), known as Louis le père, was a French painter. Life After spending some years in Italy, Boullogne set up in Paris and made a major contribution to the organisation of the Acadà ...
, painter (died
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 ...
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Jean de Gassion Jean, comte de Gassion (1609 Pau – 1647 Lens) was a Gascon military commander for France, prominent at the battle of Rocroi (1643) who reached the rank of Marshal of France at the age of thirty-four. He served Louis XIII and Louis XIV and ...
, military commander (died
1647 Events January–March * January 2 – Chinese bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong, who has ruled the Sichuan province since 1644, is killed at Xichong by a Qing archer after having been betrayed one of his officers, Liu Jinzhong. ...
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Deaths


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Andr̩ du Laurens Andr̩ du Laurens (December 9, 1558 РAugust 6, 1609), was a French physician. Biography Du Laurens was born in Tarascon and was rector of the medical school at Montpellier. He was physician to King Henry IV. His 1594 book comprising fo ...
, physician (born 1558) *
Eustache Du Caurroy François-Eustache du Caurroy (baptised February 4, 1549 – August 7, 1609) was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of both secular and sacred music at the end of the Renaissance, including '' musique mesurée'' ...
, composer (born 1549) *
Joseph Justus Scaliger Joseph Justus Scaliger (; 5 August 1540 – 21 January 1609) was a French Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish an ...
, scholar (born 1540) *
Isabelle de Limeuil Isabelle de la Tour, Lady of Limeuil (c. 1535 – 25 March 1609) was a French noblewoman and a Maid of Honour to the Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici. She also formed part of Catherine's notorious " flying squadron" (''L'escadron volant''), a ...
, noblewoman (born c.1535)


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