1573 in France

Events from the year 1573 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles IX

Events

 * Apr 30 - The spire of Beauvais Cathedral, France, which made it the tallest human-made monument in the world at the time, collapses (never rebuilt)

Full date missing

 * Mathurin Régnier, satirist (died 1613)
 * Catherine of Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont (died 1648)
 * François Annibal d'Estrées, diplomat and Marshal of France (died 1670)

Full date missing

 * Gilles Garnier, hermit
 * Jacques Besson, inventor, mathematician and philosopher (born 1540?)
 * Michel de l'Hôpital, statesman (born 1507)
 * Firmin Lebel, composer and choir director
 * Étienne Jodelle, poet and dramatist (born 1532)