1604 in France

Events from the year 1604 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch – Henry IV

Events

• Early January: The Collège Henri-IV de La Flèche is opened in La Flèche
• June: Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, establishes a settlement on Saint Croix Island - one of the first attempts by France at colonization in the territory they called l'Acadie

Births

• April 5 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)
• May 10 – Jean Mairet, classical dramatist who wrote both tragedies and comedies (d. 1686)
• May 17 – Vincent Baron, Dominican theologian writer (d. 1674)

• August 4 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, author (d. 1676)

• October 22 – Simon Le Moyne, French missionary (d. 1665)

Full date missing

• May – Louis, Count of Soissons (d. 1641)
• Pierre Thierry, organ builder (d. 1665)
• Philippe Habert, poet (d. 1637)
• Olivier Patru, lawyer and writer (d. 1681)
• Charles Beaubrun, painter (d. 1692)

Probable

• Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (d. 1676)

Deaths

• February 13– Catherine of Bourbon, regeant of Béarn (b. 1559)

• March 13 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)

• October 25 – Claude de La Trémoille, French noble (b. 1566)

Full date missing

• March – Étienne Dupérac, architect, painter, engraver and garden designer (born c.1525)
• Nicolas Barnaud, writer, physician and alchemist (b. 1538)
• November – Jean Gosselin, mathematician and astronomer (born c. 1510)
• Gabriel Bounin, French author and dramaturgist (b. 1520)
• Pierre Daniel (d'Orléans), Lawyer and philologist (b. 1531 in Orléans)

See also

References

1. 1604
2. 1604 in science
3. Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
4. New France
5. French colonial empire
6. Treaty of London (1604)
7. List of French possessions and colonies
8. Henry IV of France
9. Abraham Bosse
10. List of French flags
11. 1604 in poetry
12. Louis XIV
13. 1600s in piracy
14. Catherine of Bourbon
15. Louis, Count of Soissons
16. Bibliothèque nationale de France
17. Dauphin of France
18. D'Aulnay
19. Ancien régime
20. French architecture