1594 in France

Events from the year 1594 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch – Henry IV

Events

6 to 17 September – Siege of Morlaix
1 to 19 November – Siege of Fort Crozon

Births

June – Nicolas Poussin, painter
8 December – Pierre Petit, astronomer, physicist, mathematician and instrument maker

Full date missing

Charles Audran, engraver
Noël Quillerier, painter
Pierre de Saint-Joseph, French Cistercian monk, philosopher, and theologian
Jacques de Serisay, poet, intendant of the duc de La Rochefoucauld, and the founding director of the Académie française

Deaths

29 December – Jean Châtel

Full date missing

Charles II de Bourbon-Vendôme, prince and cardinal
Claude Dupuy jurist, humanist and bibliophile,