1606 in France
Incumbents
Events
- February 12 – Maximilien de Béthune becomes 1st Duke of Sully in the Peerage of France.{{cite book|author-link=Nicolas Rapin|first=Nicolas|last=Rapin|title=Œuvres|volume=1|publisher=Librairie Droz|location=Geneva|year=1982|isbn=9782600025690|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVI2Mc0RKKYC&pg=PAPR125|page=PR125}}
- February 24 – Commercial treaty between France and England signed in Paris.{{cite book|first=Alexander|last=de Milititz|title=Manuel des consuls: Établissement des consulats à l'étranger|volume=2|publisher=A. Asher|location=London|year=1839|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LEIMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA65|page=65}}
- March 15 – The king leaves Paris to besiege Sedan and end the revolt of the Duke of Bouillon, who submits on April 2.{{cite book|first=Édouard|last=de La Barre Duparcq|title=Henri IV et nos frontières|publisher=Librairie pour l'art militaire, les sciences et les arts|year=1875|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChhBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA18|page=18}} On April 6 the king enters the town{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Mironneau|title=Henri IV|publisher=Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot|year=2005|isbn=9782877477857|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JwzmeJGcBJIC&pg=PA149|via=Google Books|page=149}} and on April 28 returns to Paris.
- March 22 – The assembly of the French clergy grants the king a "free gift" (dons gratuits) of {{formatnum:130000}} livres.{{cite book|first=Jean|last=de Caulet|title=Lettre II et III [contre les lettres ne repugnate, et autres écrits]|year=1752|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ss286t_sEUsC&pg=PA40|page=40}}
- April 2 – Treaty for the protection of the Principality of Sedan.{{cite book|title=Recueil des traitez de paix, de trêve, de neutralité, de confédération, d'alliance et de commerce, faits par les rois de France|volume=3|publisher=Frédéric Leonard|year=1693|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2E7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA529|page=529}}
- June 3 – The Duke of Sully is named captain lieutenant in the Queen’s company.{{cite book|first=Isabelle|last=Aristide|title=La fortune de Sully|publisher=Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique|year=2014|isbn=9782821842281|page=46}}
- June 9 – Accident at the Neuilly-sur-Seine ferry: the king and queen with others of the court, returning from Saint-Germain to Paris, nearly drown. The king orders construction of the first, wooden, Pont de Neuilly, built between 1609 and 1611.
- December 18 – Richelieu is nominated Bishop of Luçon.{{cite book|first=Cécile|last=d'Albis|title=Richelieu: L'essor d'un nouvel équilibre européen|publisher=Armand Colin|location=Paris|year=2012|isbn=9782200275822|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AsgEeuppToQC&pg=PAPT30|page=PT30}}
- December – Edict on reform of the Catholic clergy.
Births
- February 10 – Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1663)
- February 27 – Laurent de La Hyre, Baroque painter (d. 1656)
- April 6 – Amable de Bourzeys, writer and academic (d. 1672)
- June 6 – Pierre Corneille, dramatist (d. 1684)
- July 13 – Roland Fréart de Chambray, architectural theorist (d. 1676)
- October 1 – Julian Maunoir, Jesuit priest (d. 1683)
- October 30 – Jean-Jacques Bouchard, erotic writer (d. 1641)
- November 12 – Jeanne Mance, nurse and settler in Montreal (d. 1673)
- date unknown
- Pierre du Ryer, dramatist (d. 1658)
- Charles Errard, painter, architect and engraver (d. 1689)
Deaths
- March 25 – François de Bar, French scholar (b. 1538)
- October 5 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
See also
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