1549 in France

Events from the year 1549 in France

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Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry II^[1]

Events

Literature

• La Défense et illustration de la langue française by the poet Joachim du Bellay

Births

Philippe de Mornay

• 3 February – Louis of Valois, prince (d. 1550)
• 4 February – Eustache Du Caurroy, composer (d. 1609)
• 20 July – Pierre de Larivey, dramatist (d. 1619)
• 17 October – Denis Godefroy, jurist (d. 1622).^[2]
• 5 November – Philippe de Mornay, Protestant writer and member of the anti-monarchist Monarchomaques (d. 1623)

Full date missing

• Louis de Bussy d'Amboise, a gentleman at the court, a swordsman, dandy, and a lover of both sexes (d. 1579)
• Eustache Du Caurroy, composer (d. 1609)
• Jeanne de Laval, noble (d. 1586)
• Étienne Tabourot, jurist, writer and poet (d. 1590)
• Marie Touchet, Dame de Belleville (d. 1638)
• Sébastien Zamet, banker (d. 1614)

Deaths

Marguerite de Navarre

• 21 December Marguerite de Navarre, the princess of France, Queen of Navarre, and Duchess of Alençon and Berry (b. 1492)^[3]

Full date missing

• Idelette Calvin (b. 1500)
• Jean de Gagny, theologian
• Michelle de Saubonne, courtier (b. 1485)

See also