1621 in France
# 1621 in France

Events from the year 1621 in France.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Louis XIII

## Events

* April 26 – Treaty of Madrid signed by courtier François de Bassompierre: Valtelline restored to the Grisons and Spain allowed to reoccupy Chiavenna.
* May – Huguenot rebellions: Capture of Saumur by Louis XIII.
* May 30 – June 24 – Huguenot rebellions: Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély – Royal victory.
* June – Huguenot rebellions: Blockade of La Rochelle begins.
* August – Huguenot rebellions: Siege of Montauban – Louis XIII besieges the Huguenot city of Montauban but is forced to abandon his siege two months later.
* Benedictine Congregation of Saint Maur established.

## Births

* July 8 – Jean de La Fontaine, fabulist (died 1695)
* August 13 – Israel Silvestre, topographical etcher (died 1691)
* September 8 – Louis, Grand Condé, general (died 1686)
* October 3 – Claude Maltret, Jesuit (died 1674)
* October 16 – Pierre Paul Puget, painter, sculptor, architect and engineer (died 1694)
* October 21 – Nicholas Barré, French Minim friar, priest and founder (died 1686)
* Françoise Bertaut de Motteville, memoirist (died 1689)
* Jacques Courtois, painter (died 1676)

## Deaths

* June 2 – Dorothea of Lorraine (born 1545)
* June 8 – Anne de Xainctonge, religious (born 1567)
* August 3 – Guillaume du Vair, author and lawyer (born 1556)
* September 20 – Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, noble (born 1578)
* c. October 8 – Antoine de Montchrestien, dramatist, economist and adventurer (born c.1575)
* October 21 – Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain, French politician (born 1569)
* December 15 – Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, Constable of France (born 1578)
* Louis de Caullery, painter (born 1555)
* François Pithou, author and lawyer (born 1543)
