1601 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Henry IV

Events

• 17 January - Treaty of Lyon: France gains Bresse, Bugey and Gex from Savoy, ceding Saluzzo in exchange

Births

• 27 May - Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary to French North America
• 17 July - Emmanuel Maignan, physicist and theologian
• 22 August - Georges de Scudéry, novelist, dramatist and poet
• 22 September - Anne of Austria, queen consort
• 27 September - Louis XIII
• 7 October - Florimond de Beaune, mathematician

Full date missing

• Jacques Gaffarel, librarian and astrologer
• Catherine Lepère, midwife

Deaths

• 29 January - Louise of Lorraine, queen consort
• 11 June - Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville, princess
• 24 June - Henriette of Cleves, noblewoman
• 17 November - Florimond de Raemond, jurist and historian

Full date missing

• Germaine Cousin, saint
• Hugues Sambin, sculptor and woodworker