Events from the year 1580 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Henry III
Events March 1 – Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. They are published later the same year.
Births April 24 – Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (d. 1660) September 15 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659) December 1 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
Date unknown Pierre Vernier, French mathematician and instrument inventor (d. 1637) Benjamin, Duke of Soubise, French Huguenot leader (d. 1642)
Deaths
September 20 – Honorat II of Savoy, French Navy admiral (b.1511)
Date unknown Renée de Dinteville - Princess-Abbess of Remiremont (b. unknown) Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly - French noblewoman and King Francis I's mistress (b.1508)
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