# The Edict of Fontainebleau of 18 October 1685 revokes the Edict of Nantes as dated royal legislation

Date: 1685

## The fact

On 18 October 1685 Louis XIV issued the Edict of Fontainebleau revoking the Edict of Nantes. The instrument is that royal statute, not a later museum show and not the prior dragonnades as a duplicate. Louis XIV of France's documented role is: He signed the revocation. Clerks, bishops, and Louvois's department carried it. He did not invent French Catholicism; he ended a legal coexistence statute.

## Context

Henry IV's 1598 edict is the repealed instrument. Sharing 1685 with Mme de Maintenon as court influence, and with bishops, is required without making her the signatory. The setting of The Edict of Fontainebleau of 18 October 1685 revokes the Edict of Nantes as dated royal legislation is the public file around 1685-10-18. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. One edict. Do not treat a 2024 Versailles exhibition as this act. Mixed effects of The Edict of Fontainebleau of 18 October 1685 revokes the Edict of Nantes as dated royal legislation are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Edict of Nantes, revocation neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/event/Edict-of-Nantes (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Musée protestant — revocation of 18 October 1685 at https://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/revocation-de-ledit-de-nantes/ (Musée protestant / Fondation pasteur Eugène Bersier). Official carrier: Britannica — Edict of Nantes, revocation neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/event/Edict-of-Nantes; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Musée protestant — revocation of 18 October 1685 (https://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/revocation-de-ledit-de-nantes/; Musée protestant / Fondation pasteur Eugène Bersier).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Edict of Nantes, revocation neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/event/Edict-of-Nantes; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from The Edict of Fontainebleau of 18 October 1685 revokes the Edict of Nantes as dated royal legislation on 1685-10-18. Repealing a minority-protection edict is a minority-rights path of high weight. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

The attached driver is protection-of-minority-rights. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The Edict of Fontainebleau of 18 October 1685 revokes the Edict of Nantes as dated royal legislation under 1685-10-18 for Louis XIV of France. Established: a sourced public record of The Edict of Fontainebleau of 18 October 1685 revokes the Edict of Nantes as dated royal legislation under 1685-10-18.

Shared responsibility is part of The Edict of Fontainebleau of 18 October 1685 revokes the Edict of Nantes as dated royal legislation. Naming Louis XIV of France does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1685-10-18 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Louis XIV of France: https://factrail.ai/people/louis-xiv-of-france

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/event/Edict-of-Nantes
- https://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/revocation-de-ledit-de-nantes/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/l14-nantes-1685