1588 in France

Events from the year 1588 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry III

Events

• 12 May – The Day of the Barricades in Paris

Births

Full date missing

• Pierre Séguier, statesman, chancellor of France (d.1672)
• Guillaume Bautru, satirical poet (d.1665)
• Claude Deruet, painter (d.1660)
• Étienne Pascal (d.1651)
• Louis Cellot, Jesuit (d.1658)
• Marin Mersenne, theologian, mathematician and music theorist (d.1648)
• Claudius Salmasius, classical scholar (d.1653)

Deaths

• 5 March – Henri I, Prince of Condé (b.1552)

Full date missing

• Jean Daurat, poet and scholar (b.1508)

See also

References