• Source: 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 Temple de Charenton-le-Pont 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)




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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

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