Events from the year 1579 in France
Incumbents
Monarch – Henry III
Events
April 10 – In the village of Cuers in France, near Toulon rebelled. Peasants killed around 600 nobles and upper-class gentlemen of the Catholic League serving the Count of Carces. December 25 – Protestant French troops, under the command of Matthieu Merle, seized the capital of Gévaudan, Mende.
Births
August 18 - Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau, fourth daughter of William the silent (d.1640) August 21- Henri, Duke of Rohan -French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots.(d.1638)
Date Unknown Germaine Cousin, French saint (d.1601) Étienne de la Croix, Jesuit missionary and writer (d.1643)
Deaths
May 6 -François de Montmorency, French noble, governor of Île de France and 2nd Duke of Montmorency. (b.1530) April 12 - Jean de Monluc, French clergyman and diplomat (b.1508)
Date unknown Claude de Rohan-Gié, French lady-in-waiting, and a mistress of king Francis I of France. (b.1519)
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