text: On 15 October 1685, Louis issued the Edict of 
  Fontainebleau, which cited the redundancy of 
  privileges for Protestants given their scarcity after 
  the 
  of 
  Fontainebleau revoked the Edict of Nantes and 
  repealed all the privileges that arose therefrom.[4] 
  By his edict, Louis no longer tolerated the existence 
  of Protestant groups, pastors, or churches in France. 
  No further churches were to be constructed, and those already existing were to be 
  demolished. Pastors could choose either exile or secular life. Those Protestants who had 
  resisted conversion were now to be baptised forcibly into the established church.[70] 
  
  extensive  conversions. The Edict 
  
  Louis XIV in 1685, the year he 
  revoked the Edict of Nantes 
  
  Protestant peasants rebelled 
  against the officially sanctioned 
  *dragonnades*(conversions enforced 
  by dragoons, labeled "missionaries 
  in boots") that followed the Edict of 
  Fontainebleau. 
  
  Historians have debated Louis's reasons for issuing the Edict of Fontainebleau. He may 
  have been seeking to placate Pope Innocent XI, with whom relations were tense and whose 
  aid was necessary to determine the outcome of a succession crisis in the Electorate of 
  Cologne. He may also have acted to upstage Emperor Leopold I and regain international 
  prestige after the latter defeated the Turks without Louis's help. Otherwise, he may simply 
  have desired to end the remaining divisions in French society dating to the Wars of Religion by fulfilling his coronation oath to 
  eradicate heresy.[71][72] 