1591 in France

Events from the year 1591 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry IV

Events

• Siege of Rouen

Births

• March 15 – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (d.1660)

Date Unknown

• Girard Desargues, mathematician (d. 1661)

Deaths

• May 4 – Hugues Doneau, law professor (b.1527).

Date Unknown

• Barnabé Brisson, jurist and politician (b.1531)
• Noël du Fail, jurist and writer (b.c.1520)
• Edmond Auger, Jesuit (b.1530)
• Claude de Sainctes, Catholic controversialist (b.1525)

See also

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