1612 in France
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Events from the year 1612 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch â Louis XIII[1]
- Regent: Marie de' Medici[2]
Events
- Starting of Equinoctial France, French colonization efforts around Equator in South America
Births
- 6 February â Antoine Arnauld, Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1694)
- 10 August â Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician (d. 1687)[3]
Full date missing
- François Byssot de la Rivière (d. 1673)
- Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder, portrait painter (d. 1689)[4]
Deaths
- 24 January â Honoré du Laurens, archbishop (b. 1554)
- 1 November â Charles, Count of Soissons, prince du sang and military commander (b. 1566)
Full date missing
- Thomas de Leu, engraver, publisher, and print dealer (b. 1560)
