Prevent the Revocation of Nantes?

How could the the revocation of the Edict of Nantes be plausibly prevented? Would Louvois' death and Colbert's continued dominance in court help? Or would it be more beneficial if Maria Theresa lived longer and Louis never married the very religious Madame de Maintenon? In what fashion could the Edict of Fonteinbleau be avoided?

And what would be the consequences of a France with a continued Huguenot minority?
 
2 ways:
more but not the majority of france becomes some form of protestantism and Louis, being Not An Idiot, doesn't cause a massive revolt

OR, and i think this is more fun

Louis, facing financial and clerical issues, becomes protestant and makes a Church of France basically centered around good economic practice. Also peasant literacy so he can educate better armies to win more wars.
 
2 ways:
more but not the majority of france becomes some form of protestantism and Louis, being Not An Idiot, doesn't cause a massive revolt

OR, and i think this is more fun

Louis, facing financial and clerical issues, becomes protestant and makes a Church of France basically centered around good economic practice. Also peasant literacy so he can educate better armies to win more wars.
Both pretty unlikely to happen... A Louis XIV who does this is practically OOC...
Maybe preventing the affair of poisons and the fall of the Montespan (and so preventing the ascension of the Maintenon) and/or keeping Queen Marie Therese alive will work better... If not you can always kill off earlier Louis XIV...
 
Both pretty unlikely to happen... A Louis XIV who does this is practically OOC...
Maybe preventing the affair of poisons and the fall of the Montespan (and so preventing the ascension of the Maintenon) and/or keeping Queen Marie Therese alive will work better... If not you can always kill off earlier Louis XIV...

Specifically how would the Queen's survival have prevented the Revocation?
 
Limiting the influence and power of the Maintenon and her very religious circle by keeping her assomple mistress instead of morganatic wife...
That does rather make a change to her moral authority. Not that the French monarchy ever seemed to look down on having a mistress.
 
That does rather make a change to her moral authority. Not that the French monarchy ever seemed to look down on having a mistress.
The point was exactly about the moral authority of the mistress of the King and her circle. Plus the fact who a mistress can be replaced...
 
The Edict of Fontainebleau was not a sudden move, it was the final step. The government had been progressively reducing the rights of Protestants and by 1681 was persecuting them with the dragonnades, forcing Protestants to keep royal troops in their homes. By 1685 he was persuaded by his ministers that the Protestant community had converted en masse, and so he issued the Edict of Fontainebleau.
 
Limiting the influence and power of the Maintenon and her very religious circle by keeping her assomple mistress instead of morganatic wife...

"Some have accused her of responsibility for the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the dragonnades, but recent investigations have shown that in spite of her ardent Catholicism, she opposed the cruelties of the dragonnades, but she was pleased with the conversions they procured."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Françoise_d'Aubigné,_Marquise_de_Maintenon#Marriage_with_Louis_XIV

And it seems that her real influence is dated by post-1700 and even then more on the specific cases (like appointment of Villeroi) rather than a general policy. Limitations on the Protestants had been going on since 1666 (almost two decades prior to Louis' marriage to Maintenon) when Louis abolished most of the freedoms granted by the Edict of Nantes. He was under a constant pressure from the Catholic clergy and it is not like the Huguenots were extremely popular among the rest of the population and was widely praised by the clergy (and not only) for the Edict of Fontainebleau.

An argument that Edict of Fontainebleau did a big damage to the French economy hardly would matter for Louis: if he cared about the economy, his reign would be seriously different. For him "economy" was pretty much about being able to get money needed for his wars and entertainment without caring how they obtained. As he allegedly told Colbert, "if you did not find <whatever was the amount>, I'd find somebody else who will". As far as the people about whom he did care were involved, they'd change their religious affiliation (as Turenne and many others) and the lower classes did not matter too much: his argument was along the lines that Edict of Nantes was signed by Henry IV in a hope that the Huguenots will convert into the Catholicism and because their best and greater part did convert (the "best" were obviously the nobility and their majority did convert), the edict is not needed anymore.
 
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