1596 in France

Events from the year 1596 in France.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry IV

Events

• Siege of Calais
• Tract of alliance between England, France and the United Netherlands

Births

• 31 March – René Descartes, French philosopher (died 1650 in Sweden)
• 6 June – Michel Particelli d'Émery (died 1650)
• 5 November – Charles II, Duke of Elbeuf, nobleman (died 1657)
• 11 November – Catherine Henriette de Bourbon (died 1663)

Deaths

• 19 February – Blaise de Vigenère, diplomat, cryptographer, translator and alchemist (born 1523)
• 5 May – Catherine de Montpensier, politically active duchess (born 1552)
• 3 October – Florent Chrestien, satirist and poet (born 1541)
• 1 November – Pierre Pithou, lawyer and scholar (born 1539)

Full date missing

• Jean Bodin, philosopher and politician (born 1530)
• Madeleine de l’Aubespine, aristocrat and writer (born 1546)

See also

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