1685 French decree which revoked the Edict of Nantes
This article is about the edict passed by Louis XIV. For the edict similarly persecuting Protestants passed by Francis I, see Edict of Fontainebleau (1540).
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The Edict of Fontainebleau (18 October 1685, published 22 October 1685) was an edict issued by French King Louis XIV and is also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Edict of Nantes (1598) had granted Huguenots the right to practice their religion without state persecution. Protestants had lost their independence in places of refuge under Cardinal Richelieu on account of their supposed insubordination, but they continued to live in comparative security and political contentment. From the outset, religious toleration in France had been a royal, rather than popular, policy.[1]
The lack of universal adherence to his religion did not sit well with Louis XIV's vision of perfected autocracy.[2]
^"The fate of Catholics at the hands of a triumphant Parliament in England suggests that the Protestants in France would have been no better off under more popular institutions", observed R.R. Palmer, A History of the Modern World, rev. ed. 1956:164.
^Palmer, eo. loc.
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