Wikipedia's article on the Edict of Fontainebleau, community-edited. Reliable for the settled date, Louis XIV's edict of 18 October 1685 revoking the 1598 Edict of Nantes, outlawing Protestant worship and ordering pastors to convert or flee within two weeks; and for the scale of the resulting Huguenot exile, which the article gives as a disputed range, 210,000 to 900,000 people leaving France over the following two decades, alongside Louis XIV's own contemporary and almost certainly understated claim that only 1,000 to 1,500 Huguenots remained by January 1686.
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PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Fontainebleau
Source Typereference
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the settled 18 October 1685 revocation date; the exile headcount is carried as the article's own wide, disputed range rather than a single invented figure. NotesUsed for the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the exile of France's Huguenots.
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