1685 in France

Events from the year 1685 in France

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Louis XIV

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 Temple de Charenton-le-Pont 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 (died 1754)

Full date missing

 * Germain Louis Chauvelin, politician (died 1762)
 * Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, princess (died 1712)
 * Madeleine Leroy, industrialist (died 1749)

Deaths

 * 9 February – Pierre Bourdelot, physician, anatomist, freethinker, abbé and libertine (born 1610)
 * 25 March – Nicolas Robert, miniaturist and engraver (born 1614)
 * 30 October – Michel Le Tellier, statesman (born 1603)
 * 5 November – Jean de Montpezat de Carbon, bishop (born 1605)
 * 28 November – Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy, nobleman (born 1598)
 * 25 December – Jacob Spon, archaeologist (born 1647)