1612 in France

Events from the year 1612 in France.

Incumbents Monarch – Louis XIII Regent: Marie de' Medici

Events

Starting of Equinoctial France, French colonization efforts around Equator in South America

Births

6 February – Antoine Arnauld, Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1694) 10 August – Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician (d. 1687)

Full date missing

François Byssot de la Rivière (d. 1673) Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder, portrait painter (d. 1689)

Deaths

24 January – Honoré du Laurens, archbishop (b. 1554) 1 November – Charles, Count of Soissons, prince du sang and military commander (b. 1566)

Full date missing

Thomas de Leu, engraver, publisher, and print dealer (b. 1560)

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