1628 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Louis XIII

Events

• Siege of La Rochelle

Births

Full date missing

• Charles Perrault, writer.
• Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé, noblewoman
• François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, general and marshal of France

Deaths

• 16 October - François de Malherbe, poet, critic and translator

Full date missing

• Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, merchant, explorer and colonizer
• Simon Goulart, theologian, humanist and poet
• François de Sourdis, prelate, archbishop
• Nicolas des Escuteaux, novelist