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1685 in France
Events from the year
1685 in
France
.
Incumbents
Monarch
–
Louis XIV
Events
22 October –
Louis XIV
issues the
Edict of Fontainebleau
, which revokes the
Edict of Nantes
and declares
Protestantism
illegal, thereby depriving
Huguenot
s of civil rights. Their is immediately demolished.
The decree
Code Noir
, passed by King
Louis XIV
, defines the conditions of slavery in the
French colonial empire
.
French colonization of Texas
.
Births
6 January –
Martin Bouquet
, Benedictine and historian (died 1754)
Full date unknown
Germain Louis Chauvelin
, politician (died 1762)
Marie Adélaïde of Savoy
, princess (died 1712)
Madeleine Leroy
, industrialist (died 1749)
Deaths
9 February –
Pierre Bourdelot
, physician, anatomist, freethinker, abbé and libertine (born 1610)
25 March –
Nicolas Robert
, miniaturist and engraver (born 1614)
30 October –
Michel Le Tellier
, statesman (born 1603)
5 November –
Jean de Montpezat de Carbon
, bishop (born 1605)
28 November –
Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy
, nobleman (born 1598)
25 December –
Jacob Spon
, archaeologist (born 1647)
See also
References