1573 in France
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Events from the year 1573 in France.
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Charles IX[1]
Events
- Apr 30 - The spire of Beauvais Cathedral, France, which made it the tallest human-made monument in the world at the time, collapses (never rebuilt)[2]
Births
Full date missing
- Mathurin Régnier, satirist (died 1613)[3]
- Catherine of Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont (died 1648)
- François Annibal d'Estrées, diplomat and Marshal of France (died 1670)
Deaths
Full date missing
- Gilles Garnier, hermit
- Jacques Besson, inventor, mathematician and philosopher (born 1540?)
- Michel de l'Hôpital, statesman (born 1507)
- Firmin Lebel, composer and choir director
- Ãtienne Jodelle, poet and dramatist (born 1532)
