1594 in France
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Events from the year 1594 in France.
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Incumbents
Events
- 6 to 17 September â Siege of Morlaix
- 1 to 19 November â Siege of Fort Crozon
Births
- June â Nicolas Poussin, painter (d. 1665)
- 8 December â Pierre Petit, astronomer, physicist, mathematician and instrument maker (d. 1677)
Full date missing
- Charles Audran, engraver (d. 1674)
- Noël Quillerier, painter (d. 1669)[2]
- Pierre de Saint-Joseph, French Cistercian monk, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1662)
- Jacques de Serisay, poet, intendant of the duc de La Rochefoucauld, and the founding director of the Académie française (d. 1653)[3]
Deaths
- 29 December â Jean Châtel (b. 1575)
Full date missing
- Charles II de Bourbon-Vendôme, prince and cardinal (b. 1562)
- Claude Dupuy, jurist, humanist, and bibliophile, (b. 1545)
