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1685 in France

Events from the year 1685 in France

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Louis XIV

    • Events

  • 22 October – Edict of Fontainebleau
  • The decree Code Noir, passed by King Louis XIV, defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire.
  • French colonization of Texas

    • Births

  • 6 January – Martin Bouquet, Benedictine and historian (died 1754).

    • Full date missing

  • Germain Louis Chauvelin, politician (died 1762)
  • Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, princess (died 1712)

    • Full date missing

  • Jacob Spon, archaeologist (born 1647)
  • Nicolas Robert, miniaturist and engraver (born 1614)
  • Jean de Montpezat de Carbon, bishop (born 1605)
  • Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy, nobleman (born 1598)
  • Michel Le Tellier, statesman (born 1603)
  • Pierre Bourdelot, physician, anatomist, libertine and freethinker (born 1610)

    • References

    1685 in France Wikipedia
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