1552 in France

Events from the year 1552 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Henry II

Events

 * 15 January – Signing of the Treaty of Chambord
 * Cour des monnaies is established
 * October 1552 to January 1553 – Siege of Metz

Births



 * 8 February – Agrippa d'Aubigné, poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler (d. 1630)
 * 23 October – Odet de Turnèbe, dramatist (d. 1581)

Full date missing

 * Jean Bertaut, poet (d. 1611)
 * Charles David, architect (d. 1650)
 * François Grudé, writer and bibliographer
 * Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, diplomat (d. 1636)
 * Antoine de Pluvinel, riding master (d. 1620)

Deaths



 * 8 January – Eustorg de Beaulieu, poet, composer and pastor (b. around 1495)
 * 1 February – Charles de Solier, comte de Morette, soldier and diplomat (b. 1480)
 * 2 December – Claude d'Annebault, military officer (b. 1495)

Full date missing

 * Pierre du Chastel, humanist, librarian (born around 1480)
 * René I, Viscount of Rohan (b. 1516)