1621 in France
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Events from the year 1621 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Louis XIII[1]
Events
- April 26 â Treaty of Madrid signed by courtier François de Bassompierre: Valtelline restored to the Grisons and Spain allowed to reoccupy Chiavenna.
- May â Huguenot rebellions: Capture of Saumur by Louis XIII.
- May 30 â June 24 â Huguenot rebellions: Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély â Royal victory.
- June â Huguenot rebellions: Blockade of La Rochelle begins.
- August â Huguenot rebellions: Siege of Montauban â Louis XIII besieges the Huguenot city of Montauban but is forced to abandon his siege two months later.
- Benedictine Congregation of Saint Maur established.
Births
- July 8 â Jean de La Fontaine, fabulist (died 1695)
- August 13 â Israel Silvestre, topographical etcher (died 1691)
- September 8 â Louis, Grand Condé, general (died 1686)
- October 3 â Claude Maltret, Jesuit (died 1674)
- October 16 â Pierre Paul Puget, painter, sculptor, architect and engineer (died 1694)
- October 21 â Nicholas Barré, French Minim friar, priest and founder (died 1686)
- Françoise Bertaut de Motteville, memoirist (died 1689)
- Jacques Courtois, painter (died 1676)
Deaths
- June 2 â Dorothea of Lorraine (born 1545)
- June 8 â Anne de Xainctonge, religious (born 1567)
- August 3 â Guillaume du Vair, author and lawyer (born 1556)
- September 20 â Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, noble (born 1578)
- c. October 8 â Antoine de Montchrestien, dramatist, economist and adventurer (born c.1575)
- October 21 â Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain, French politician (born 1569)
- December 15 â Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, Constable of France (born 1578)
- Louis de Caullery, painter (born 1555)
- François Pithou, author and lawyer (born 1543)
