1612 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIII
• Regent: Marie de' Medici

Events

• Starting of Equinoctial France, French colonization efforts around Equator in South America

Births

• 6 February - Antoine Arnauld, Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician
• 10 August - Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician

Full date missing

• François Byssot de la Rivière
• Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder, portrait painter

Deaths

• 24 January - Honoré du Laurens, archbishop
• 1 November - Charles, Count of Soissons, prince du sang and military commander

Full date missing

• Thomas de Leu, engraver, publisher, and print dealer