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 Huguenots 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)

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