1580 in France
# 1580 in France

Events from the year 1580 in France

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Henry III

## Events

* March 1 – Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. They are published later the same year.

## Births

* April 24 – Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (d. 1660)
* September 15 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
* December 1 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
* date unknown
   * Pierre Vernier, French mathematician and instrument inventor (d. 1637)
   * Benjamin, Duke of Soubise, French Huguenot leader (d. 1642)

## Deaths

* Renée de Dinteville
* Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly
