1608 in France

Events from the year 1608 in France

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Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry IV^[1]

Events

• Until March – "Great Winter": very severe weather.^[2] The Rhône is frozen.
• 1 January – Inauguration in Paris of the Grand Galerie linking the Louvre and Tuileries Palaces.^[3]
• 23 January – 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]
• 1–16 October: Political assembly of Protestants at Jargeau.^[7]

Births

• 18 March – Paul Ragueneau, Jesuit missionary (died 1680)
• 28 March – Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny, Foreign Minister (died 1652)
• 15 April – Honoré Fabri, mathematician (died 1688)
• 24 April – Gaston, Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV (died 1660)
• 15 May – René Goupil, Jesuit lay missionary (martyred 1642)
• 20 August – Ludovicus a S. Carolo, monk (died 1670)
• 20 September – Jean-Jacques Olier, Catholic priest (died 1657)
• 3 October – Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, noble (died 1657)
• Full date missing – Antoine Le Maistre, lawyer, author and translator (died 1658)

Deaths

Charles III, Duke of Lorraine

• 18 January – Jacques Couet, pastor (born 1546)
• 16 February – Nicolas Rapin, magistrate and satirist (born 1535)
• 27 February – Henri, Duke of Montpensier, noble (born 1573)
• 8 March – René Benoît, religious confessor (born 1521)
• 12 April – Pierre Brûlart, seigneur de Genlis, statesman (born c.1535)
• 14 May – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (born 1543)^[8]
• 28 September – 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)

See also