Events from the year 1591 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Henry IV
Events Siege of Rouen
Births
March 15 – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (d.1660)
Date Unknown Girard Desargues, mathematician (d. 1661)
Deaths
May 4 – Hugues Doneau, law professor (b.1527).
Date Unknown Barnabé Brisson, jurist and politician (b.1531) Noël du Fail, jurist and writer (b.c.1520) Edmond Auger, Jesuit (b.1530) Claude de Sainctes, Catholic controversialist (b.1525)
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