1594 in France
# 1594 in France

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)
