ABSTRACT
On 22 October 1685, Parlement registered the Edict of Fontainebleau. It brought to a formal end the special and tolerated place in the realm enjoyed by Huguenots since Louis’s grandfather had signed the Edict of Nantes in 1598. In Louis’s Memoires the Huguenots are not mentioned among the serious disorders that he found on accession. Louis respected Jacques-Benigne Bossuet and made him the Dauphin’s tutor. He would note his efforts and views as he did his grandiloquent sermons, appealing to his royal sense of duty. In 1679 Louis might not have envisaged revocation within a given time. It was never a grand design, only a grand idea, not the object of his planning, rather a pious hope. One consequence of Louis XIV’s policy was to bring together, sharing common exile, Bayle, the pastor Claude, Gilbert Burnet and John Locke.
