 Since then it has been sharply decreasing as the Huguenots were no more tolerated by both the French royalty and the Catholic masses.By the end of the sixteenth century Huguenots constituted 7-8% of the whole population, or 1.2 million people.By the time Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Huguenots accounted for 800,000 to 1 million people.