Events from the Year 1602 in France
Incumbents
Monarch – Henry IV
Events
January 26: Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully becomes the governor of the Bastille.
June 14: Charles de Gontaut-Biron is arrested for treason.
July 15: Claude de La Trémoille sells the Château de Sully-sur-Loire to Maximilien de Béthune.
July 31: Charles de Gontaut-Biron is executed at the Bastille.
Births
January 31 – Adam Billaut, poet and carpenter (d. 1662).
February 2 – Jeanne des Anges, Ursuline nun in Loudun (d. 1665).
March 18 – Jacques de Billy, Jesuit mathematician (d. 1679).
May 26 – Philippe de Champaigne, painter (d. 1674).
July 8 – François Perrochel, cleric (d. 1682).
July 14 – Cardinal Mazarin, statesman (d. 1661).
August 10 – Gilles de Roberval, mathematician (d. 1675).
November 17 – Agnes of Jesus, Catholic nun (d. 1634).
Full Date Missing
- Charles Raymbault, Jesuit missionary (d. 1643).
- Françoise-Marie Jacquelin (d. 1645).
- Caesar, duc de Choiseul, marshal and diplomat (d. 1675).
- Antoine de l’Age, duc de Puylaurens, courtier (d. 1635).
Deaths
January – Claude Fauchet, French historian.
January 10: Daniel Tossanus, theologian (born 1541).
February 19: Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, soldier (b. 1558).
July 31: Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron, soldier (born 1562).
September 14: Jean Passerat, political satirist and poet (born 1534).
October 13: Franciscus Junius, theologian (b. 1545).
October 30: Jean-Jacques Boissard, poet (born 1528).
November 22: Toussaint Dubreuil, painter (born c. 1561).