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Events from the year 1604 in France
Incumbents
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[edit]- Early January: The Collège Henri-IV de La Flèche is opened in La Flèche
- June: Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, establishes a settlement on Saint Croix Island - one of the first attempts by France at colonization in the territory they called l'Acadie
Births
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- April 5 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)[2]
- May 10 – Jean Mairet, classical dramatist who wrote both tragedies and comedies (d. 1686)
- May 17 – Vincent Baron, Dominican theologian writer (d. 1674)
- August 4 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, author (d. 1676)
- October 22 – Simon Le Moyne, French missionary (d. 1665)
Full date missing
[edit]- May – Louis, Count of Soissons (d. 1641)
- Pierre Thierry, organ builder (d. 1665)
- Philippe Habert, poet (d. 1637)
- Olivier Patru, lawyer and writer (d. 1681)
- Charles Beaubrun, painter (d. 1692)
Probable
[edit]- Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (d. 1676)
Deaths
[edit]- February 13– Catherine of Bourbon, regeant of Béarn (b. 1559)
- March 13 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
- October 25 – Claude de La Trémoille, French noble (b. 1566)
Full date missing
[edit]- March – Étienne Dupérac, architect, painter, engraver and garden designer (born c.1525)
- Nicolas Barnaud, writer, physician and alchemist (b. 1538)
- November – Jean Gosselin, mathematician and astronomer (born c. 1510)
- Gabriel Bounin, French author and dramaturgist (b. 1520)
- Pierre Daniel (d'Orléans), Lawyer and philologist (b. 1531 in Orléans)
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Henry IV, King of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610)". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Karl IV, Hertug af Lothringen". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 13 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 30 September 2015.