1523 in France
Events from the year 1523 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- June 8 -King Francis I bans the dispatch of money from the French court to Rome and expels the papal nuncio.
- Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, plotted against King Francis I allaying with the Habsburgs. The plot ultimately failed, and Charles fled France.
Birth
- April 5 - Blaise de Vigenère, French diplomat, translator and the creator of the Vigenère cipher.
- June 5- Margaret of Valois, Daughter of king Francis I, Duchess of Berry and Duchess of Savoy by marriage.
- September 22- Charles de Bourbon French nobleman and Archbishop of Rouen
Deaths
- August 8- Jean Vallière, a French friar who was the first protestant executed on a charge of heresy in France.