Events from the year 1568 in France.

Incumbents Monarch – Charles IX

Events February to March – Siege of Chartres 23 March – Peace of Longjumeau

Births

11 February – Honoré d'Urfé, novelist (d.1625).

Full date missing Charlotte Catherine de La Trémoille, noblewoman (d.1629) Nikolaus Ager, botanist (d.1634)

Deaths

Full date missing July – Lancelot de Carle, Bishop of Riez, scholar, poet and diplomat (b. 1508) Charlotte de Laval, noblewoman (b.1530) Pierre Bontemps, sculptor (b. c. 1505) Antoine Héroet, poet

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