1591 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch - Henry IV

Events

• Siege of Rouen

Births

• March 15 - Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary

Date Unknown

• Girard Desargues, mathematician

Deaths

• May 4 – Hugues Doneau, law professor.

Date Unknown

• Barnabé Brisson, jurist and politician
• Noël du Fail, jurist and writer
• Edmond Auger, Jesuit
• Claude de Sainctes, Catholic controversialist