1594 in France

Events from the year 1594 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Henry IV

Events

 * 6 to 17 September – Siege of Morlaix
 * 1 to 19 November – Siege of Fort Crozon

Births



 * June – Nicolas Poussin, painter (d. 1665)
 * 8 December – Pierre Petit, astronomer, physicist, mathematician and instrument maker (d. 1677)

Full date missing

 * Charles Audran, engraver (d. 1674)
 * Noël Quillerier, painter (d. 1669)
 * Pierre de Saint-Joseph, French Cistercian monk, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1662)
 * Jacques de Serisay, poet, intendant of the duc de La Rochefoucauld, and the founding director of the Académie française (d. 1653)

Deaths

 * 29 December – Jean Châtel (b. 1575)

Full date missing

 * Charles II de Bourbon-Vendôme, prince and cardinal (b. 1562)
 * Claude Dupuy jurist, humanist and bibliophile, (b. 1545)