Events from the year 1685 in France
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Incumbents
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
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- 6 January – Martin Bouquet, Benedictine and historian (died 1754)[2]
Full date missing
- 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
- ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Louis XIV (1638-1715)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Bouquet, Dom Martin". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
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