1610 in France
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Events of the year 1610 in France.
==Incumbents==
- Monarch: Henry IV (until 14 May),{{cite web |title=Henry IV {{!}} king of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-IV-king-of-France |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=9 June 2019 |language=en}} then Louis XIII{{cite web |title=Louis XIII {{!}} king of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=9 June 2019 |language=en}}
- Regent: Marie de' Medici (from 14 May){{cite book |last1=Armstrong |first1=Alastair |title=France, 1500-1715 |date=2003 |publisher=Heinemann |isbn=9780435327514 |page=102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xIX_b_93aVIC&pg=PA102 |language=en}}
Events
- May 13 – Marie de' Medici is crowned Queen of France at the Basilica of Saint-Denis.
- May 14 – Henry IV, King of France, is fatally stabbed by François Ravaillac during a parade marking the recent coronation of his wife; he is succeeded by his 8-year-old son Louis.{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Peter H.|title=Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War|year=2010|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=9780141006147|page=324|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bgqQcL_yFAC&pg=PT324}}
- May 15 – By the first lit de justice of Louis XIII, his mother Marie de' Medici is proclaimed regent of France.
- May 27 – Regicide François Ravaillac is executed by being pulled apart by horses in the Place de Grève, Paris.
- October 17 – Louis XIII is crowned King of France at Reims Cathedral.
Births
- February 2 – Pierre Bourdelot, physician, anatomist, freethinker, abbé and libertine (died 1685)
- February 13 – Jean de Labadie, mystic (died 1674)
- April 1 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, soldier and writer (died 1703)
- By July 10 – Louis Maimbourg, Jesuit historian (died 1686)
- October 6 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, soldier (died 1690)
- François Eudes de Mézeray, historian (died 1683)
- Abraham Duquesne, naval officer (died 1688)
- Marie Meurdrac, chemist and alchemist (died 1680)
Deaths
- January 1 – François Feuardent, theologian (born 1539)
- February 27 – Philippe Canaye, diplomat (born 1551)
- May 14 – King Henry IV of France, assassinated (born 1553)
- May 27 – François Ravaillac, assassin of Henry IV, executed (born 1578)