* 1621 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer ( b. 1556 )

He influencing Guillaume du Tillot and the Duke of Parma.

Lucifer ( Le génie du mal ) by Guillaume Geefs ( Cathedral of St. Paul, Liège, Belgium )

Much the same fate awaited them in the territories of the Bourbon Duke of Parma and Piacenza, advised by the liberal minister Guillaume du Tillot.

Parma became a modern state with the energetic action of prime minister Guillaume du Tillot.

* January 9 – Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general ( b. 1491 )

* August 3 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer ( b. 1556 )

* March 7 – Guillaume du Vair, French statesman and philosopher ( d. 1621 )

As late as 1716, Guillaume Delisle's map of Paris shows that a short stretch of roads and fields and market garden plots still separated the grand axe of the Tuileries gardens from the planted " Avenue des Thuilleries ," stretches west from a newly cleared Place du Pont Tournant soon to be renamed for Louis XV and now the Place de la Concorde.

Rabelais traveled frequently to Rome with his friend Cardinal Jean du Bellay, and lived for a short time in Turin with du Bellay's brother, Guillaume, during which François I was his patron.

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Jean du Bellay ( c. 1493 – 16 February 1560 ) was a French cardinal and diplomat, younger brother of Guillaume du Bellay, and bishop of Bayonne in 1526, member of the privy council in 1530, and bishop of Paris in 1532.

When Guillaume du Bellay went to Piedmont, Jean was put in charge of the negotiations with the German Protestants, principally through the humanist Johann Sturm and the historian Johann Sleidan.

Rabelais traveled frequently to Rome with his friend Cardinal Jean du Bellay, and lived for a short time in Turin with du Bellay's brother, Guillaume, during which François I was his patron.

Joachim Du Bellay was born at the Château of La Turmelière, not far from Liré, near Angers, being the son of Jean du Bellay, Lord of Gonnor, first cousin of the cardinal Jean du Bellay and of Guillaume du Bellay.

Sébillet replied in the preface to his translation of the Iphigenia of Euripides ; Guillaume des Autels, a Lyonnese poet, reproached du Bellay with ingratitude to his predecessors, and showed the weakness of his argument for imitation as opposed to translation in a digression in his Réplique aux furieuses defenses de Louis Meigret ( Lyons, 1550 ); Barthélemy Aneau, regent of the Collège de la Trinité at Lyons, attacked him in his Quintil Horatian ( Lyons, 1551 ), the authorship of which was commonly attributed to Charles Fontaine.

In her 2006 book Louise Labé: une créature de papier ( Droz ), the eminent Sorbonne professor Mireille Huchon argues that Louise Labé was not the author of the works signed with her name but rather that these works were by the Lyonnais poets Maurice Scève, Olivier de Magny, Claude de Taillemont, Jacques Peletier du Mans, Guillaume des Autels, and others, and by the publisher Jean de Tournes.

The first discovery of the diffuse nebulous nature of the Orion Nebula is generally credited to French astronomer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, on 26 November 1610 when he made a record of observing it with a refracting telescope purchased by his patron Guillaume du Vair.

In any case, Jeanne could not qualify as an official royal mistress unless she had a title ; this was solved by her marriage on 1 September 1768 to du Barry's brother, comte Guillaume du Barry.

* 1851 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer ( d. 1932 )

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1801 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician ( d. 1876 )

* 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.

* 1962 – Guillaume LeBlanc, Canadian athlete

* 1981 – Guillaume Elmont, Dutch judoka

* 1723 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman ( b. 1656 )

* 1971 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor ( d. 2008 )

These reformed French Breviaries — e. g. the Paris Breviary of 1680 by Archbishop François de Harlay ( 1625 – 1695 ) and that of 1736 by Archbishop Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille ( 1655 – 1746 )— show a deep knowledge of Holy Scripture, and much careful adaptation of different texts.

* 1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

* 1861 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1938 )

* 1675 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer ( d. 1726 )

* 1976 – Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor

* 1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter ( d. 2010 )

* 1766 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general ( d. 1815 )

* 1987 – Guillaume Franke, French-born German rugby player

* 1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

* 1725 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer ( d. 1792 )

Guillaume the Metayer ( 1763 – 1798 ), known as Rochambeau, the well known counter-revolutionary chief of Mayenne, was shot there on Thermidor 8, year VI.

* Guillaume d ' Estouteville ( 1403 – 1483 )

William I ( Old Norman: Williame I ; circa 1028 – 9 September 1087 ), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes as William the Bastard ( Guillaume le Bâtard ), was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

* Guillaume Dufay, ( – 1474 ), Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist.