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)
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