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Following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, many French

Huguenots take refuge in Britain and begin the manufacture of silk.

1688 Jules Hardouin Mansart, the chief architect to Louis XIV of France, constructs the Grand Trianon in the grounds of the palace at Versailles.