1608 in France
Events from the year 1608 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- Until March - "Great Winter": very severe weather. The Rhône is frozen.
- 1 January - Inauguration in Paris of the Grand Galerie linking the Louvre and Tuileries Palaces.
- 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.
- 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.
- March: Ursulines arrive in Paris.
- 1–16 October: Political assembly of Protestants at Jargeau.
Births
- 18 March - Paul Ragueneau, Jesuit missionary
- 28 March - Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny, Foreign Minister
- 15 April - Honoré Fabri, mathematician
- 24 April - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV
- 15 May - René Goupil, Jesuit lay missionary
- 20 August - Ludovicus a S. Carolo, monk
- 20 September - Jean-Jacques Olier, Catholic priest
- 3 October - Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, noble
- Full date missing - Antoine Le Maistre, lawyer, author and translator
Deaths
- 18 January - Jacques Couet, pastor
- 16 February - Nicolas Rapin, magistrate and satirist
- 27 February - Henri, Duke of Montpensier, noble
- 8 March - René Benoît, religious confessor
- 12 April - Pierre Brûlart, seigneur de Genlis, statesman
- 14 May - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
- 28 September - Henri, Duke of Joyeuse, military general
Full date missing
- Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, poet
- Nicolas de Montreux, nobleman, novelist, poet and playwright
- Petrus Morinus, biblical scholar