1600 in France

Events from the year 1600 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Henry IV

Births



 * February 2 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
 * February 9 – Jean-Joseph Surin, French Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
 * April 11 – Jacques Buteux, French missionary (d. 1652)
 * July 1 – George Gobat, French theologian (d. 1679)
 * July 22 - Michel de Marolles, French translator and churchman (d. 1681)
 * August 24 – Antoine de Laloubère, French Jesuit mathematician (d. 1664)
 * December 20 – Nicolas Sanson, French cartographer (d. 1667)


 * December 12 – Denis of the Nativity, sailor and cartographer (died 1638)

Full date missing

 * Jacques Blanchard, painter
 * December - Marie de Rohan, aristocrat (died 1679)
 * Marin le Roy de Gomberville, poet and novelist (died 1674)

Probable

 * Martine Bertereau, French mineralogist
 * Claude Lorrain, French Baroque painter, draughtsman and engraver (d. 1682)

Deaths

 * September 25 – Antoine du Verdier, French politician (b. 1544)
 * September 26 – Claude Le Jeune, French composer (b. 1530)

Full date missing

 * Gilles de Noailles, ambassador (born 1524)