1605 in France
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Events from the year 1605 in France.
Incumbents
Events
In North America, the French abandoned their settlement on the St. Croix River (Nova Scotia) after a disastrous winter.[2]
Births
- 28 September â Ismaël Bullialdus, astronomer and mathematician (died 1694)
Full date missing
- Pierre Patel, painter (died 1676)
- Jean de Montpezat de Carbon, bishop (died 1685)
Deaths
- 4 August â Charles I, Duke of Elbeuf, nobleman (born 1556)
- 23 September â Pontus de Tyard, poet (born c.1521)
- 13 October â Theodore Beza, Protestant reformer (born 1519)[3]
- 3 December â Guy XX de Laval, nobleman (born 1585)
