1600 in France
Events from the year 1600 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- April 4 – a contract for marriage between king Henry IV and Marie de Medici was signed in Florence.
- August- King Henry IV declares war on Charles Emmanuel of Savoy and shortly after the French army invaded Savoy starting the Franco-Savoyard War of 1600–1601.
- October 5 – a proxy Marriage between king Henry IV and Marie de Medici was held in Florence.
Births
- February 2 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar
- February 9 – Jean-Joseph Surin, French Jesuit writer
- April 11 – Jacques Buteux, French missionary
- July 1 – George Gobat, French theologian
- July 22 - Michel de Marolles, French translator and churchman
- August 24 – Antoine de Laloubère, French Jesuit mathematician
- December 20 – Nicolas Sanson, French cartographer
- December 12 - Denis of the Nativity, sailor and cartographer
Full date missing
- Jacques Blanchard, painter
- December - Marie de Rohan, aristocrat
- Marin le Roy de Gomberville, poet and novelist
Probable
- Martine Bertereau, French mineralogist
- Claude Lorrain, French Baroque painter, draughtsman and engraver
Deaths
- September 25 – Antoine du Verdier, French politician
- September 26 – Claude Le Jeune, French composer
Full date missing
- Gilles de Noailles, ambassador