1596 in France

Events from the year 1596 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Henry IV

Events



 * Siege of Calais
 * Tract of alliance between England, France and the United Netherlands

Births

 * 31 March – René Descartes, French philosopher (died 1650 in Sweden)
 * 6 June – Michel Particelli d'Emery (died 1650)
 * 5 November – Charles II, Duke of Elbeuf, nobleman (died 1657)
 * 11 November – Catherine Henriette de Bourbon (died 1663)

Deaths

 * 19 February – Blaise de Vigenère, diplomat, cryptographer, translator and alchemist (born 1523)
 * 5 May – Catherine de Montpensier, politically active duchess (born 1552)
 * 3 October – Florent Chrestien, satirist and poet (born 1541)
 * 1 November – Pierre Pithou, lawyer and scholar (born 1539)

Full date missing

 * Jean Bodin, philosopher and politician (born 1530)
 * Madeleine de l’Aubespine, aristocrat and writer (born 1546)