Events from the year 1601 in France.
Incumbents Monarch – Henry IV
Events 17 January – Treaty of Lyon: France gains Bresse, Bugey and Gex from Savoy, ceding Saluzzo in exchange
Births 27 May – Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary to French North America (d.1648) 17 July – Emmanuel Maignan, physicist and theologian (d.1676) 22 August – Georges de Scudéry, novelist, dramatist and poet (d.1667) 22 September – Anne of Austria, queen consort(d.1666) 27 September – Louis XIII (d.1643) 7 October – Florimond de Beaune, mathematician (d.1652)
Full date missing Jacques Gaffarel, librarian and astrologer (d.1681) Catherine Lepère, midwife (d.1679)
Deaths
29 January – Louise of Lorraine, queen consort (b.1553) 11 June – Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville, princess (b.1549) 24 June – Henriette of Cleves, noblewoman (b.1542) 17 November – Florimond de Raemond, jurist and historian (b.1540)
Full date missing Germaine Cousin, saint (b.1579) Hugues Sambin, sculptor and woodworker (b.c.1520)
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