Events from the year 1559 in France
Monarch – Henry II, Francis II
The Ancient Diocese of Saint-Omer established
Catherine de Bourbon (died 1604)
Jacques d'Amboise, surgeon (died 1606)
Isaac Casaubon, scholar and philologist (died 1614)
10 July – Henry II of France (born 1519).
Martin du Bellay, nobleman (born 1495)
Jacquet of Mantua, composer (born 1483)
Nicolas Denisot, poet and painter (born 1515)
Pierre Doré, theologian (born c.1500)
Antoine Le Maçon, translator (born c.1500)
Antoine Sanguin, clergyman (born 1493)
Anne du Bourg, magistrate (born 1521).
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