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Thursday, October 22, 2009

French king revoked Edict of Nantes on religious freedom

On October 22, 1685, the Edict of Nantes, which permitted religious freedom in France, was revoked by King Louis XIV, prompting thousands of French Protestants - Huguenots - to flee the country.

Depiction of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, from the 1690s

Read the instrument of revocation in English.


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