1606 in France
Events from the year 1606 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- February 12 - Maximilien de Béthune becomes 1st Duke of Sully in the Peerage of France.
- February 24 - Commercial treaty between France and England signed in Paris.
- March 15 - The king leaves Paris to besiege Sedan and end the revolt of the Duke of Bouillon, who submits on April 2. On April 6 the king enters the town and on April 28 returns to Paris.
- March 22 - The assembly of the French clergy grants the king a "free gift" of livres.
- April 2 - Treaty for the protection of the Principality of Sedan.
- June 3 - The Duke of Sully is named captain lieutenant in the Queen’s company.
- June 9 - Accident at the Neuilly-sur-Seine ferry: the king and queen with others of the court, returning from Saint-Germain to Paris, nearly drown. The king orders construction of the first, wooden, Pont de Neuilly, built between 1609 and 1611.
- December 18 - Richelieu is nominated Bishop of Luçon.
- December - Edict on reform of the Catholic clergy.
Births
- February 10 - Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy
- February 27 - Laurent de La Hyre, Baroque painter
- April 6 - Amable de Bourzeys, writer and academic
- June 6 - Pierre Corneille, dramatist
- July 13 - Roland Fréart de Chambray, architectural theorist
- October 1 - Julian Maunoir, Jesuit priest
- October 30 - Jean-Jacques Bouchard, erotic writer
- November 12 - Jeanne Mance, nurse and settler in Montreal date unknown
- * Pierre du Ryer, dramatist
- * Charles Errard, painter, architect and engraver
Deaths
- March 25 - François de Bar, French scholar
- October 5 - Philippe Desportes, French poet