1596 in France

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Events from the year 1596 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Henry IV

Siege of Calais

Tract of alliance between England, France and the United Netherlands

31 March – René Descartes, French philosopher (died 1650)

6 June – Michel Particelli d'Emery (died 1650)

5 November – Charles II, Duke of Elbeuf, nobleman (died 1657)

11 November – Catherine Henriette de Bourbon (died 1663)

19 February – Blaise de Vigenère, diplomat, cryptographer, translator and alchemist (born 1523)

3 October – Florent Chrestien, satirist and poet (born 1541)

1 November – Pierre Pithou, lawyer and scholar (born 1539)

Jean Bodin, philosopher and politician (born 1530).

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