Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Edict of Fontainebleau)

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1. 1681–1685Kingdom of France · FranceFrom 1681, when dragoons were quartered in homes in Poitou and elsewhere to force conversion, the crown progressively demolished surviving Reformed churches and restricted occupations and judicial rights. By autumn 1685 few public places of worship remained, and the court prepared to revoke the Edict of Nantes on the grounds of "almost universal conversion."
2. 1685Palace of Fontainebleau · Île-de-FranceLouis XIV signed the edict at Fontainebleau, declaring revoked his grandfather Henry IV's 1598 Edict of Nantes and the related concessions of Nîmes of 1629, ordering the immediate demolition of Reformed churches in the realm and banning any public Protestant worship, including in noble households.
3. 1685–1686Paris · FranceAfter the edict was promulgated, unconverted pastors had to leave the realm within about two weeks, and laypeople were forbidden to flee. Large numbers of artisans, officers and merchants nonetheless traveled secretly by sea and land to the Netherlands, England, Brandenburg and elsewhere, forming one of the largest religious refugee flows of the early modern period and directly prompting the Edict of Potsdam.