Events from the year 1587 in France.
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Incumbents edit
Events edit
- 20 October – Huguenot and Royalist forces clashed at the Battle of Coutras. Hugeunots under Henry of Navarre won the battle.
- 26 October – Royalist forces commanded by Henry I, Duke of Guise won the Battle of Vimory.
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- Construction of Couvent des Feuillants was started.[1]
- Guillaume Du Bartas was sent on a diplomatic mission to Scotland.
- Collège de France instituted Arabic lessons, with Arnoult de Lisle being the first professor of the chair of Arabic.
Births edit
- 30 April – Éléonore de Bourbon, French princess (died 1619)
- 17 November – Charles Lallemant, French Jesuit (died 1674)[2]
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- Catherine de Sainte-Maure, French courtier (died 1648)
- Didier Palleti, French bishop (died 1658)
- Isaac de Razilly, French noble (died 1635)[3]
- Marin Boucher, French pioneer of North America (died 1671)
- Robert Giffard de Moncel, French surgeon (died 1668)
Deaths edit
- 23 March – Charles de Rambouillet, French cardinal (born 1530)
- 11 May – Élie Vinet, French humanist (born 1509)
- 24 May – Diana of Foix (birth year unknown)
- 20 October – Anne de Joyeuse, French noble and commander (born 1560)[4]
- 30 October – Charles de Vaudémont, French cardinal (born 1561)
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- Madeleine Des Roches, French writer (born 1520)
- Philibert du Croc, French diplomat (born 1515)[5]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Maquet, Auguste (1883). Paris Sous Louis XIV: Monuments Et Vues ; (Mit Portrait, Tafeln, Plänen, Holzschnitten) (in French). Laplace, Sanchez et Cie.
- ^ Bibliotheca missionum: Amerikanische missionsliteratur, 1493-1699. 1924 (in Spanish). Verlag der Aschendorffschen Buchhandlung. 1924. p. 782.
- ^ Hir, Marie-Pierre Le (25 March 2022). French Immigrants and Pioneers in the Making of America. McFarland. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-4766-8442-0.
- ^ Wilde, Oscar (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts. Oxford University Press. p. 401. ISBN 978-0-19-818772-1.
- ^ Venetianische Depeschen vom Kaiserhofe: (Dispacci di Germania) (in German). In Commission bei F. Tempsky. 1895. p. 257.