1601 in France

Events from the year 1601 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Henry IV

Events

 * 17 January – Treaty of Lyon: France gains Bresse, Bugey and Gex from Savoy, ceding Saluzzo in exchange

Births

 * 27 May – Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary to French North America (died 1648)
 * 17 July – Emmanuel Maignan, physicist and theologian (died 1676)
 * 22 August – Georges de Scudéry, novelist, dramatist and poet (died 1667)
 * 27 September – Louis XIII of France (died 1643)
 * 7 October – Florimond de Beaune, mathematician (died 1652)

Full date missing

 * Jacques Gaffarel, librarian and astrologer (died 1681)
 * Catherine Lepère, midwife (died 1679)

Deaths

 * 29 January – Louise of Lorraine, queen consort (born 1553)
 * 11 June – Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville, princess (born 1549)
 * 24 June – Henriette of Cleves, noblewoman (born 1542)
 * 17 November – Florimond de Raemond, jurist and historian (born 1540)

Full date missing

 * Germaine Cousin, saint (born 1579)
 * Hugues Sambin, sculptor and woodworker (born c.1520)