1621 in France
Events from the year 1621 in France.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Louis XIII
Events
- April 26 – Treaty of Madrid signed by courtier François de Bassompierre: Valtelline restored to the Grisons and Spain allowed to reoccupy Chiavenna.
- May – Huguenot rebellions: Capture of Saumur by Louis XIII.
- May 30 – June 24 – Huguenot rebellions: Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély – Royal victory.
- June – Huguenot rebellions: Blockade of La Rochelle begins.
- August – Huguenot rebellions: Siege of Montauban – Louis XIII besieges the Huguenot city of Montauban but is forced to abandon his siege two months later.
- Benedictine Congregation of Saint Maur established.
Births
- July 8 – Jean de La Fontaine, fabulist
- August 13 – Israel Silvestre, topographical etcher
- September 8 – Louis, Grand Condé, general
- October 3 – Claude Maltret, Jesuit
- October 16 – Pierre Paul Puget, painter, sculptor, architect and engineer
- October 21 – Nicholas Barré, French Minim friar, priest and founder
- Françoise Bertaut de Motteville, memoirist
- Jacques Courtois, painter
Deaths
- June 2 – Dorothea of Lorraine
- June 8 – Anne de Xainctonge, religious
- August 3 – Guillaume du Vair, author and lawyer
- September 20 – Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, noble
- c. October 8 – Antoine de Montchrestien, dramatist, economist and adventurer
- October 21 – Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain, French politician
- December 15 – Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, Constable of France
- Louis de Caullery, painter
- François Pithou, author and lawyer