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1685
Events from the year 1685 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch – Louis XIVBBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715) https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xiv.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 9 June 2022
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 fr 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
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6 January – Martin Bouquet, Benedictine and historian (died 1754)Bouquet, Dom Martin Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon 3 1915 2 Blangstrup, Chr. Christian Blangstrup J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel Copenhagen da https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/3/0828.html 1 September 2015
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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
France History Lists
References
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