Events from the year 1546 in France.
Incumbents
Events
End of the Sieges of Boulogne (1544–1546)
Births
- March 29 - Anne d'Escars de Givry, clergyman (d.1612)
Full date missing
- Philippe Desportes, poet (d.1606)[2]
- Pierre de L'Estoile, diarist and collector (d.1611)
- Nicolas de Harlay, seigneur de Sancy, soldier and diplomat (d.1629)
- Pierre de La Primaudaye, writer (d.1619)
- Jacques Le Bossu, theologian (d.1626)
- Madeleine de l’Aubespine, aristocrat and writer (d.1596)[3]
Deaths
- February 23 -Francis, Count of Enghien (b.1519 )
- August 1 - Peter Faber, French Catholic priest and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (b.1506)
- August 3 (executed) - Étienne Dolet, scholar, translator and printer (b.1509)
See also
References
- ^ "Francis I | king of France | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1917). "Desportes, Philippe". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 6 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ^ "Selected Poems and Translations: A Bilingual Edition". University of Chicago Press. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 13 May 2023.