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By the time Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Huguenots accounted for 800,000 to 1 ... The Huguenot population of France dropped to 856,000 by the mid ...
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.
in Huguenots in Britain and their French Background, 1550–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1987) pp. 158–174. [ISBN missing] Treasure, Geoffrey. The Huguenots (Yale UP, 2015) [ISBN missing] Tylor, Charles. The Huguenots in the Seventeenth Century: Including the History of the Edict of Nantes, from Its Enactment in 1598 to Its Revocation in 1685 (1892)
The date of the founding of the French colony could be set as 1 December 1685, when the City Commander of Magdeburg, Ernst Gottlieb von Borstel ( 1630-1687 ) received the order from Berlin to make it happen as soon as the preacher Banzelin came with the first French families. The first troop of 50 Huguenots then met on 27 December 1685 in ...
The Huguenot rebellions ... with the Siege of Nègrepelisse in which the population was massacred and the city was burnt ... and revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. ...
The Huguenots of the Reformed Church of France were followers of John Calvin, and became the major Protestant sect in France.A large portion of the population died in massacres or were deported from French territory following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
In France the settlement proposed by the Edict of Nantes was whittled away, to the disadvantage of the Huguenot population, and the edict was revoked in 1685. Protestant Europe was largely divided into Lutheran and Reformed (Calvinist) areas, with the Church of England maintaining a separate position. Efforts to unify Lutherans and Calvinists ...
"The Huguenot Population of France, 1600-1685: The Demographic Fate and Customs of a Religious Minority". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 81 (5). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society: i–164. doi:10.2307/1006507. ISSN 0065-9746. JSTOR 1006507. — (2001). The faith and fortunes of France's Huguenots, 1600-85 ...