1602 in France

Events from the year 1602 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Henry IV

Events

 * January 26: Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully becomes the governor of the Bastille.
 * June 14: Charles de Gontaut-Biron is arrested for Treason
 * July 15: Claude de La Trémoille sells the Château de Sully-sur-Loire to Maximilien de Béthune
 * July 31: Charles de Gontaut-Biron is executed on the Bastille

Births

 * January 31 – Adam Billaut, poet, carpenter (d. 1662)
 * February 2 – Jeanne des Anges, Ursuline nun in Loudun (d. 1665)
 * March 18 – Jacques de Billy, Jesuit mathematician (d. 1679)
 * May 26 – Philippe de Champaigne, painter (d. 1674)
 * July 8 – François Perrochel, cleric (d. 1682)
 * July 14 – Cardinal Mazarin, statesman (d. 1661)
 * August 10 – Gilles de Roberval, mathematician (died 1675)


 * November 17 – Agnes of Jesus, Catholic nun (d. 1634)

Full date missing

 * Charles Raymbault, Jesuit missionary (died 1643)
 * Françoise-Marie Jacquelin (died 1645)
 * Caesar, duc de Choiseul, marshal and diplomat (d. 1675)


 * Antoine de l'Age, duc de Puylaurens, courtier (d. 1635)

Deaths



 * January – Claude Fauchet, French historian


 * January 10 – Daniel Tossanus, theologian (born 1541)


 * February 19 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, soldier (b. 1558)


 * July 31 – Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron, soldier (born 1562)


 * September 14 – Jean Passerat, political satirist and poet (born 1534)
 * October 13 – Franciscus Junius, theologian (b. 1545)
 * October 30 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, poet (born 1528)
 * November 22 – Toussaint Dubreuil, painter (born c.1561)