Events from the year 1594 in France
Incumbents
- Monarch – Henry IV
Events
- 6 to 17 September – Siege of Morlaix
- 1 to 19 November – Siege of Fort Crozon
Births
- June – Nicolas Poussin, painter (d. 1665)
- 8 December – Pierre Petit, astronomer, physicist, mathematician and instrument maker (d. 1677)
Full date missing
- Charles Audran, engraver (d. 1674)
- Noël Quillerier, painter (d. 1669)
- Pierre de Saint-Joseph, French Cistercian monk, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1662)
- Jacques de Serisay, poet, intendant of the duc de La Rochefoucauld, and the founding director of the Académie française (d. 1653)
Deaths
- 29 December – Jean Châtel (b. 1575)
Full date missing
- Charles II de Bourbon-Vendôme, prince and cardinal (b. 1562)
- Claude Dupuy jurist, humanist and bibliophile, (b. 1545)
See also
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