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22nd October
On this day in
1685
, Louis XIV revoked the
Edict of Nantes
which led to many Huguenot Protestants leaving France. Among mathematicians affected were
Abraham de Moivre
,
Albert Girard
,
Joseph Saurin
,
Denis Papin
and
Francis Maseres
.