1600 in France

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Events from the year 1600 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry IV ^[1]

Events

• April 4 – a contract for marriage between king Henry IV and Marie de Medici was signed in Florence. ^[2]
• August- King Henry IV declares war on Charles Emmanuel of Savoy and shortly after the French army invaded Savoy starting the Franco-Savoyard War of 1600–1601. ^[3]
• October 5 – a proxy Marriage between king Henry IV and Marie de Medici was held in Florence. ^[2]

Births

Jacques Blanchard

• February 2 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
• February 9 – Jean-Joseph Surin, French Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
• April 11 – Jacques Buteux, French missionary (d. 1652)
• July 1 – George Gobat, French theologian (d. 1679)
• July 22 - Michel de Marolles, French translator and churchman (d. 1681)
• August 24 – Antoine de Laloubère, French Jesuit mathematician (d. 1664)
• December 20 – Nicolas Sanson, French cartographer (d. 1667)

• December 12 – Denis of the Nativity, sailor and cartographer (d.1638)

Full date missing

• Jacques Blanchard, painter (d.1638) ^[4]
• December - Marie de Rohan, aristocrat (d.1679)
• Marin le Roy de Gomberville, poet and novelist (died 1674)

Probable

• Martine Bertereau, French mineralogist
• Claude Lorrain, French Baroque painter, draughtsman and engraver (d. 1682)

Deaths

• September 25 – Antoine du Verdier, French politician (b. 1544)
• September 26 – Claude Le Jeune, French composer (b. 1530)

Full date missing

• Gilles de Noailles, ambassador (b.1524)

References

1. "Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610)". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
2. Péréfixe de Beaumont, Hardouin de (2018). The history of Henry IV. surnamed the Great, King of France and Navarre translated From the French. Forgotten Books.
3. "Foreign Policy of Henry IV - War History". warhistory.org. 2017-10-08. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
4. Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Blanchard, Jacques". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. p. 385. Retrieved 29 August 2015.