1591 in France

Events from the year 1591 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Henry IV

Events

 * Siege of Rouen

Births

 * 15 March – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (died 1660)

Full date missing

 * Girard Desargues, mathematician (died 1661)

Full date missing

 * Barnabé Brisson, jurist and politician (born 1531)
 * Noël du Fail, jurist and writer (born c.1520)
 * Edmond Auger, Jesuit (born 1530)
 * Claude de Sainctes, Catholic controversialist (born 1525)