1588 in France

Events from the year 1588 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Henry III

Events

 * 12 May – The Day of the Barricades in Paris

Births




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 * Pierre Séguier, statesman, chancellor of France (died 1672)
 * Guillaume Bautru, satirical poet (died 1665)
 * Claude Deruet, painter (died 1660)
 * Étienne Pascal (died 1651)
 * Louis Cellot, Jesuit (died 1658)
 * Marin Mersenne, theologian, mathematician and music theorist (died 1648)
 * Claudius Salmasius, classical scholar (died 1653)

Full date missing

 * Jean Daurat, poet and scholar (born 1508)