1553 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Henry II

Events

• Invasion of Corsica

Births

• December 13 - Henry IV of France.
• May 14- Margaret of Valois, Queen of France

Full date missing

• Louise of Lorraine, queen consort
• Pierre de Lancre, judge, conducted a massive witch-hunt
• Jacques Auguste de Thou, historian

Deaths

Full date missing

• Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, noblewoman
• François Rabelais, writer and humanist
• Gilles Le Breton, architect
• Gabriel de Luetz, Baron and Lord of Aramon and Vallabrègues, French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire