1588 in France

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Events from the year 1588 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Henry III

12 May – The Day of the Barricades in Paris

Pierre Séguier, statesman, chancellor of France (died 1672)

Guillaume Bautru, satirical poet (died 1665)

Claude Deruet, painter (died 1660)

Étienne Pascal (died 1651)

Louis Cellot, Jesuit (died 1658)

Marin Mersenne, theologian, mathematician and music theorist (died 1648)

Jean Daurat, poet and scholar (born 1508).

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