He revoked all religious liberties
One King, One Law, One Faith was the motto of Louis XIV, a devout Catholic. He decided to withdraw all civil and religious liberties as a result. This implied that if Protestants, who made up roughly 5% of France's population, continued to practice their religion, they would all be put to death.
When he issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598, the king's great-grandfather Henry IV gave French Protestants also known as Huguenots political and religious freedom. Devout Catholic Louis XIV thought his religion should be the only one practiced in his nation in 1680.
Louis further expanded his persecution against Protestants in 1681. Although Louis outlawed migration and urged that all Protestants be converted, the notion cuius regio, eiusnticio generally also meant that individuals who refused to convert might depart. Second, he started disputing dragons in Protestant homes at the advice of René de Marillac and the Marquis of Louvois. Although he was legally allowed to do so, these dragons ruthlessly mistreated and created tremendous financial hardship for Protestants.
The Catholic king overturned the Edict of Nantes in 1685 by issuing the Edict of Fontainebleau, which mandated the demolishment of the homes, after years of harassing Protestants and restricting their privileges. Protestant churches closed Protestant schools and required baptism, and Catholic education for kids. At least 200,000 Huguenots fled France as a result of the decree in search of religious freedom in other parts of Europe or the American colonies.
