1541 in France
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Events from the year 1541 in France.
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Incumbents
Events
- May 23 â Jacques Cartier departed from Saint-Malo on his third voyage.[2]
Date Unknown
- John Calvin translates his Institutio Christianae religionis into French, as L'Institution chrétienne.[3]
Births
- January 26 â Florent Chrestien, writer (d. 1596)[4]
Full date missing
- Pierre Charron, Catholic theologian and philosopher (died 1603)[5]
Deaths
Full date missing
- Georges de Selve, scholar and diplomat (born 1508)
- François II de La Trémoille, nobleman (born 1505)
- François Guillaume de Castelnau-Clermont-Ludève, diplomat and cardinal (born 1480)
- Barthélemy de Chasseneuz, jurist (born 1480)
- Jean Clouet, painter (born 1480)[6]
- Antonio Rincon, ambassador
