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Events from the year 1551 in France

Incumbents

Monarch – Henry II^[1]

Events

27 June – Edict of Châteaubriant prohibits possessing any books listed on the University of Paris's Index, translating the Bible or works of the Church Fathers, importing books from Geneva or other places not under the Catholic Church's control, or printing or selling any religious books written in the last 40 years.^[2]

Births

19 September – King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
26 October – Charlotte de Sauve, courtesan (d. 1617)

Deaths

Jean Ango, privateer (b. 1480)

See also

References

^ Nolan, Cathal J. (2006). The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 391. ISBN 978-0-313-33733-8.
^ Pottinger, David Thomas (1958). The French Book Trade in the Ancien Régime, 1500–1791. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 58. ISBN 9780674432581. OCLC 7385496598.

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