Concino Concini, 1st Marquis d'Ancre was an Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of Louis's mother, Marie de Medici, Queen of France. In 1617, he was killed at the behest of the King.
Blaise de Vigenère was a French diplomat, cryptographer, translator and alchemist.
Jacques Grévin (c. 1539 – 5 November 1570) was a French playwright.
François Hinard was a French historian of the Roman Republic.
Charles-Philippe Ronsin was a French general of the Revolutionary Army of the First French Republic, commanding the large Parisian division of l'Armée Révolutionnaire. He was an extreme radical leader of the French Revolution, and one of the many followers of Jacques-René Hébert, known as the Hébertists.
Arthena or Association pour la Diffusion de l'Histoire de l'Art is a French company which regularly publishes art history books and most particularly catalogues.
Robert Arnauld d’Andilly was a French conseiller d’État, specialising in financial questions, in the court of Marie de' Medici. By the elegance of his language, he was among the major poets, writers and translators of 17th century French classicism. A fervent Catholic, he played an important role in the history of Jansenism and was one of the Solitaires of Port-Royal-des-Champs. He was also renowned for his part in the development of the pruning of fruit trees, to which he was devoted.
The abbé Simon-Joseph Pellegrin (1663 – 5 September 1745) was a French poet and playwright, a librettist who collaborated with Jean-Philippe Rameau and other composers.
Leonora Dori Galigaï was a French courtier of Italian origin, an influential favourite of the French regent Marie de' Medici, mother of King Louis XIII of France. Galigaï was married to Concino Concini, the later marquis and then marshal d'Ancre, during Marie's reign as queen mother and regent of France.
Beyens de Grambais is a Dutch-Belgian family of nobility, with a branch settling in the Southern Netherlands in the early 17th century.
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories Fantasmagoriana, published anonymously in 1812, which inspired Mary Shelley and John William Polidori to write Frankenstein and The Vampyre respectively. He was one of the founding members of the Société de Géographie, a member of the Société Asiatique, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, American Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Legion of Honour. He had a mountain named after him near Yos Sudarso Bay in New Guinea, as well as a sandbank near French Island, Australia, and a street in Le Havre.
Thomas Billon was a celebrated French anagrammatist.
Jean Pepermans, sometimes Latinized Joannes Pepermannus was a 17th-century printer and bookseller, official printer to the city of Brussels. Very little is known about his life, but he published works by or about some of the leading figures at the Brussels court.
Events from the year 1606 in France
Pierre Antoine Jean-Baptiste Villiers became a French playwright, journalist and poet. Already a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, he was made chevalier of the Order of Saint Louis on 18 August 1822
Claude Coffin was a French cantor and composer, active in Paris during the first third of the 17th century.
Events from the year 2017 in France.
This article lists major events that happened in 2019 in France.
Events in the year 2020 in France.
Jean-François Poron was a French actor and director.
