1568 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles IX

Events

• February to March - Siege of Chartres
• 23 March - Peace of Longjumeau

Births

• 11 February - Honoré d'Urfé, novelist.

Full date missing

• Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille, noblewoman
• Nikolaus Ager, botanist

Deaths

Full date missing

• July – Lancelot de Carle, Bishop of Riez, scholar, poet and diplomat
• Charlotte de Laval, noblewoman
• Pierre Bontemps, sculptor
• Antoine Héroet, poet