text: Many historians have condemned the Edict of Fontainebleau as gravely harmful to France.[73] In support, they cite the emigration 
  of about 200,000 highly skilled Huguenots (roughly one quarter of the Protestant population, or 1% of the French population) 
  who defied royal decrees and fled France for various Protestant states, weakening the French economy and enriching that of 
  Protestant states. On the other hand, some historians view this as an exaggeration. They argue that most of France's preeminent 
  Protestant businessmen and industrialists converted to Catholicism and remained.[74] 
  
  What is certain is that the reaction to the Edict was mixed. Even while French Catholic leaders exulted, Pope Innocent XI still 
  argued with Louis over Gallicanism and criticized the use of violence. Protestants across Europe were horrified at the treatment of 
  their co-religionists, but most Catholics in France applauded the move. Nonetheless, it is indisputable that Louis's public image in 
  most of Europe, especially in Protestant regions, was dealt a severe blow. 
  
  In the end, however, despite renewed tensions with the Camisards of south-central France at the end of his reign, Louis may have 
  helped ensure that his successor would experience fewer instances of the religion-based disturbances that had plagued his 
  forebears. French society would sufficiently change by the time of his descendant, Louis XVI, to welcome tolerance in the form 
  of the 1787 Edict of Versailles, also known as the Edict of Tolerance. This restored to non-Catholics their civil rights and the 
  freedom to worship openly.[75] With the advent of the French Revolution in 1789, Protestants were granted equal rights with their 
  Roman Catholic counterparts. 