• Source: 1579 in France

      • Events from the year 1579 in France


      Incumbents


      Monarch – Henry III


      Events


      April 10 – In the village of Cuers in France, near Toulon rebel peasants kill 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 (b.1640)
      August 21- Henri, Duke of Rohan -French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots.(d.1638)


      Deaths


      May 6 -François de Montmorency, French noble, governor of Île de France and 2nd Duke of Montmorency. (b.1530)
      Claude de Rohan-Gié, French lady-in-waiting, and a mistress of king Francis I of France. (b.1519)


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