 Then he imposed penalties and closed their schools and excluded them from favorite professions.Escalating the attack, he tried to forcibly re-Catholicize the Huguenots by the employment of armed dragonnades (soldiers) to occupy and loot their houses, and finally by the revocation (Oct. 18, 1685) of the liberal Edict of Nantes of 1598.The revocation forbade Protestant services, the children were to be educated as Catholics, and emigration was prohibited.