Events from the year 1557 in France
Monarch – Henry II
24 July – Edict of Compiègne
10 August – Battle of St. Quentin
Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just, nobleman (died 1615)
Jacques Cartier, explorer (born 1491).
Jacques d'Annebaut, cardinal
Nicolas Bachelier, surveyor and architect (born 1485)
Matthieu Ory, Dominican theologian and inquisitor (born 1492)
Valérand Poullain, Calvinist minister (born 1509?)
Philibert Babou, cryptographer (born c.1484)
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