1685 in France
Events from the year 1685 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 22 October - Louis XIV issues the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal, thereby depriving Huguenots of civil rights. Their is immediately demolished.
- The decree Code Noir, passed by King Louis XIV, defines the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire.
- French [colonization of Texas].
Births
- 6 January - Martin Bouquet, Benedictine and historian
Full date unknown
- Germain Louis Chauvelin, politician
- Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, princess
- Madeleine Leroy, industrialist
Deaths
- 9 February - Pierre Bourdelot, physician, anatomist, freethinker, abbé and libertine
- 25 March - Nicolas Robert, miniaturist and engraver
- 30 October - Michel Le Tellier, statesman
- 5 November - Jean de Montpezat de Carbon, bishop
- 28 November - Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy, nobleman
- 25 December - Jacob Spon, archaeologist