1612 in France

Events from the year 1612 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIII
 * Regent: Marie de' Medici

Events

 * Starting of Equinoctial France, French colonization efforts around Equator in South America

Births

 * 6 February – Antoine Arnauld, Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1694)
 * 10 August – Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician (d. 1687)

Full date missing

 * François Byssot de la Rivière (d. 1673)
 * Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder, portrait painter (d. 1689)

Deaths

 * 24 January – Honoré du Laurens, archbishop (b. 1554)
 * 1 November – Charles, Count of Soissons, prince du sang and military commander (b. 1566)

Full date missing

 * Thomas de Leu, engraver, publisher, and print dealer (b. 1560)