1608 in France
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Events from the year 1608 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- Until March â "Great Winter": very severe weather.[2] The Rhône is frozen.
- 1 January â Inauguration in Paris of the Grand Galerie linking the Louvre and Tuileries Palaces.[3]
- 23 January â Treaty of The Hague, a defensive alliance between France and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, negotiated for France by Pierre Jeannin, is signed.[4]
- 25 March: Annunciation: Following a sermon by Franciscan Father Basile, reform of the abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs by abbess Mother Marie Angélique Arnauld is initiated.[5]
- March: Ursulines arrive in Paris.[6]
- 1â16 October: Political assembly of Protestants at Jargeau.[7]
Births
- 18 March â Paul Ragueneau, Jesuit missionary (died 1680)
- 28 March â Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny, Foreign Minister (died 1652)
- 15 April â Honoré Fabri, mathematician (died 1688)
- 24 April â Gaston, Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV (died 1660)
- 15 May â René Goupil, Jesuit lay missionary (martyred 1642)
- 20 August â Ludovicus a S. Carolo, monk (died 1670)
- 20 September â Jean-Jacques Olier, Catholic priest (died 1657)
- 3 October â Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, noble (died 1657)
- Full date missing â Antoine Le Maistre, lawyer, author and translator (died 1658)
Deaths
- 18 January â Jacques Couet, pastor (born 1546)
- 16 February â Nicolas Rapin, magistrate and satirist (born 1535)
- 27 February â Henri, Duke of Montpensier, noble (born 1573)
- 8 March â René Benoît, religious confessor (born 1521)
- 12 April â Pierre Brûlart, seigneur de Genlis, statesman (born c.1535)
- 14 May â Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (born 1543)[8]
- 28 September â Henri, Duke of Joyeuse, military general (born 1563)
Full date missing
- Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, poet (born 1536)
- Nicolas de Montreux, nobleman, novelist, poet and playwright (born c.1561)
- Petrus Morinus, biblical scholar (born 1531)
