Events from the year 1612 in France
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Incumbents edit
- Monarch – Louis XIII[1]
- Regent: Marie de' Medici[2]
Events edit
- Starting of Equinoctial France, French colonization efforts around Equator in South America
Births edit
- 6 February – Antoine Arnauld, Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1694)
- 10 August – Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse, aristocrat, landowner and politician (d. 1687)[3]
Full date missing edit
- François Byssot de la Rivière (d. 1673)
- Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder, portrait painter (d. 1689)[4]
Deaths edit
- 24 January – Honoré du Laurens, archbishop (b. 1554)
- 1 November – Charles, Count of Soissons, prince du sang and military commander (b. 1566)
Full date missing edit
- Thomas de Leu, engraver, publisher, and print dealer (b. 1560)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Louis XIII | king of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ Armstrong, Alastair (2003). France, 1500-1715. Heinemann. p. 102. ISBN 9780435327514.
- ^ "Le musée Ciotaden". Archived from the original on 2013-12-10. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ "Louis Ferdinand Elle (le vieux)". rkd.nl. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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