Edict of Fontainebleau
Even before the Edict of Fontainebleau (October 1685), Charles adopted on 18 April 1685 the "Freiheits-Concession" [ "Freedom Concession" ], promising the exiles from France, the Huguenots and Waldensians, free settlement and their own churches and schools. In the following years, about 4000 the Protestants fled persecution in their homelands for Northern Hesse and, for example, about 1700 of them settled in , the newly created borough of Kassel.