1595 in France

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Events from the year 1595 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Henry IV

8 to 24 April – Siege of Calais

5 June – Battle of Fontaine-Française

20 to 26 June – Siege of Le Catelet

14 to 31 July – Siege of Doullens

Jean Chapelain, poet (died 1674).

Jean Desmarets, writer and dramatist (died 1676)

Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux, diplomat (died 1650)

Henri II de Montmorency, nobleman and military commander (died 1632)

Jean Ballesdens, lawyer and editor (died 1675)

André de Brancas, admiral

Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville, aristocrat (born 1568)

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