• Source: 1606 in France

Events from the year 1606 in France.




Incumbents


Monarch – Henry IV




Events


February 12 – Maximilien de Béthune becomes 1st Duke of Sully in the Peerage of France.
February 24 – Commercial treaty between France and England signed in Paris.
March 15 – The king leaves Paris to besiege Sedan and end the revolt of the Duke of Bouillon, who submits on April 2. On April 6 the king enters the town and on April 28 returns to Paris.
March 22 – The assembly of the French clergy grants the king a "free gift" (dons gratuits) of 130,000 livres.
April 2 – Treaty for the protection of the Principality of Sedan.
June 3 – The Duke of Sully is named captain lieutenant in the Queen’s company.
June 9 – Accident at the Neuilly-sur-Seine ferry: the king and queen with others of the court, returning from Saint-Germain to Paris, nearly drown. The king orders construction of the first, wooden, Pont de Neuilly, built between 1609 and 1611.
December 18 – Richelieu is nominated Bishop of Luçon.
December – Edict on reform of the Catholic clergy.




Births


February 10 – Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1663)
February 27 – Laurent de La Hyre, Baroque painter (d. 1656)
April 6 – Amable de Bourzeys, writer and academic (d. 1672)
June 6 – Pierre Corneille, dramatist (d. 1684)
July 13 – Roland Fréart de Chambray, architectural theorist (d. 1676)
October 1 – Julian Maunoir, Jesuit priest (d. 1683)
October 30 – Jean-Jacques Bouchard, erotic writer (d. 1641)
November 12 – Jeanne Mance, nurse and settler in Montreal (d. 1673)
date unknown
Pierre du Ryer, dramatist (d. 1658)
Charles Errard, painter, architect and engraver (d. 1689)




Deaths


March 25 – François de Bar, French scholar (b. 1538)
October 5 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)




See also






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