Events from the year 1540 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch – Francis I
Events
January 1 (New Year's Day), Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, at the invite of King Francis I, visits Paris for the first and only time and stays for 2 months. June 1, Edict of Fontainebleau was issued by King Francis I branding Protestants as heretics and condemned to death.
Births
August 5 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French-Italian religious leader and scholar. (d.1609)
Date Unknown
Georgette de Montenay, French author (b.1581) Jean de Serres, French historian (b.1598) François Viète, French mathematician (d.1603) Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard, poet (d.1564)
Deaths
August 20 - Guillaume Budé, French scholar (b.1467)
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