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1591 in France

overview of France-related events during the year of 1591

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ2808258 ↗
Source-derived summary

Events from the year 1591 in France.

Incumbents

Monarch – Henry IV

Events

Siege of Rouen

Births

March 15 – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (d.1660)

Date Unknown

Girard Desargues, mathematician (d. 1661)

Deaths

May 4 – Hugues Doneau, law professor (b.1527).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1591 in France” as overview of France-related events during the year of 1591. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around France, overview and France-related.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1591, 1660, 1661, 1527—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with France, overview and France-related providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2808258. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1591, 1660, 1661 and 1527.

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This entry incorporates text from “1591 in France” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.