1604 in France explained

Events from the year 1604 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Henry IV^[1]

Events

• Early January: The 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)^[2]
• 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  -, mathematician and astronomer (born c. 1510)
• Gabriel Bounin, French author and dramaturgist (b. 1520)
• , Lawyer and philologist (b. 1531 in Orléans)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) . www.metmuseum.org . 7 June 2022.
2. Encyclopedia: Karl IV, Hertug af Lothringen . . 13 . 1915 . 2 . Blangstrup, Chr. . Christian Blangstrup . J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel . Copenhagen . da . 30 September 2015 .