1604 in France

Events from the year 1604 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Henry IV

Events

 * Early January: The Collège Henri-IV de La Flèche is opened in La Flèche
 * June: Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, establishes a settlement on Saint Croix Island - one of the first attempts by France at colonization in the territory they called l'Acadie

Births

 * April 5 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)
 * May 10 – Jean Mairet, classical dramatist who wrote both tragedies and comedies (d. 1686)
 * May 17 – Vincent Baron, Dominican theologian writer (d. 1674)


 * August 4 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, author (d. 1676)


 * October 22 – Simon Le Moyne, French missionary (d. 1665)

Full date missing

 * May – Louis, Count of Soissons (d. 1641)
 * Pierre Thierry, organ builder (d. 1665)
 * Philippe Habert, poet (d. 1637)
 * Olivier Patru, lawyer and writer (d. 1681)
 * Charles Beaubrun, painter (d. 1692)

Probable

 * Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (d. 1676)

Deaths

 * February 13– Catherine of Bourbon, regeant of  Béarn (b. 1559)


 * March 13 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)


 * October 25 – Claude de La Trémoille, French noble (b. 1566)

Full date missing

 * March – Étienne Dupérac, architect, painter, engraver and garden designer (born c.1525)
 * Nicolas Barnaud, writer, physician and alchemist (b. 1538)
 * November – Jean Gosselin, mathematician and astronomer (born c. 1510)
 * Gabriel Bounin, French author and dramaturgist (b. 1520)
 * Pierre Daniel (d'Orléans), Lawyer and philologist (b. 1531 in Orléans)