1600 in France
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Events from the year 1600 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- April 4 â a contract for marriage between king Henry IV and Marie de Medici was signed in Florence.[2]
- August- King Henry IV declares war on Charles Emmanuel of Savoy and shortly after the French army invaded Savoy starting the Franco-Savoyard War of 1600â1601.[3]
- October 5 â a proxy Marriage between king Henry IV and Marie de Medici was held in Florence.[2]
Births
- February 2 â Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
- February 9 â Jean-Joseph Surin, French Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
- April 11 â Jacques Buteux, French missionary (d. 1652)
- July 1 â George Gobat, French theologian (d. 1679)
- July 22 - Michel de Marolles, French translator and churchman (d. 1681)
- August 24 â Antoine de Laloubère, French Jesuit mathematician (d. 1664)
- December 20 â Nicolas Sanson, French cartographer (d. 1667)
- December 12 â Denis of the Nativity, sailor and cartographer (d.1638)
Full date missing
- Jacques Blanchard, painter (d.1638)[4]
- December - Marie de Rohan, aristocrat (d.1679)
- Marin le Roy de Gomberville, poet and novelist (died 1674)
Probable
- Martine Bertereau, French mineralogist
- Claude Lorrain, French Baroque painter, draughtsman and engraver (d. 1682)
Deaths
- September 25 â Antoine du Verdier, French politician (b. 1544)
- September 26 â Claude Le Jeune, French composer (b. 1530)
Full date missing
- Gilles de Noailles, ambassador (b.1524)
