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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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Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...


Events

*January –
Battle of Blavet The Battle of Blavet (French: ''Bataille du Blavet'') was an encounter between the Huguenot forces of Soubise and a French fleet under the Duke of Nevers in Blavet harbour (''Port de Blavet'', modern Port-Louis), Brittany in January 1625, trigger ...
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Recovery of Ré island The Recovery of Ré Island (French: ''Reprise de l'Île de Ré'') was accomplished by the army of Louis XIII in September 1625, against the troops of the Protestant admiral Soubise and the Huguenot forces of La Rochelle, who had been occupying th ...


Births

* 20 August – Thomas Corneille, playwright (died 1709)


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* Joseph de Montclar, cavalry general (died 1690) *
Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie (1625 – 14 June 1709) is considered to be the founder of the first modern police force. Early career Born in 1625 in Limoges, France to a poor family, Gabriel Nicolas made a wealthy marriage in 1645 and took the na ...
, police officer (died 1709)


Deaths

*1 June – Honoré d'Urfé, novelist (born
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Denis Jamet Denis Jamet, O.M.R., (or ''Denis Jamay'') (died February 26, 1625 in Montargis, France) was a French Recollect friar and Catholic priest and the first superior of the Canadian mission (1615). Jamet, Provincial Superior of the Order in the Provinc ...
, priest *
Nicolas Viel Father Nicolas Viel, O.M.R., (died 25 June 1625) was a French Recollect missionary to the Hurons from 1623 to 1625. Biography Among the first missionaries sent by France to its colony, Viel traveled to Huron territory, arriving there with fel ...
, Recollect missionary * Jacques Leschassier, jurist and magistrate (born 1550) *
César Oudin César Oudin (''c''. 1560 – 1 October 1625) was a French Hispanist, translator, paremiologist, grammarian and lexicographer. He translated into French ''La Galatea'' and the first part of ''Don Quixote''. He wrote a ''Grammaire espagnolle expl ...
, Hispanist, translator, grammarian and lexicographer (born c.1560)


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