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...James is on the throne and, as ever, there are disputes between crown and Parliament. We see the Habeus Corpus Act introduced, the persecution of the Huguenots and troubles in Ireland....

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...ible than that which drenched the streets of Paris during the slaughter of the Huguenots. They were no respecters of persons: children, women, old age...

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... be wiped out, and that for many centuries the inquisitions tortured, imprisoned or killed anyone who did not submit to popery. They forget about the Huguenots who were slaughtered throughout France. They no longer hear the cries of the Waldensians as they are thrown off of the edge of a cliff or burned alive in a cave. They no longer hear the weeping nor feel compassion f...

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... to know, for that they sent her here on purpose to see if we were not all Huguenots. ‘V ery likely, the little viper! Le me pass, Eustacie. I must go... ... their whole troop of savage gens d’ armes, come out to fall upon the poor Huguenots, who are doing no harm at all, only listening to a long dull serm... ...Sunday at Rouen, and attended a Calvinist service in the building that the Huguenots were permitted outside the town, he was much disappointed in it; ... ... who hated virtue as much as schism in the men whom they per- secuted. The Huguenots were for the most part men whose instincts for truth and virtue h... ...Queen-mother of the support of that great Roman Catholic power against the Huguenots; whom Walsingham believed her to dread and hate less for their ow... ...y, in especial a massacre of prisoners at Nerac. Sidney exclaimed that the Huguenots had suffered far worse cruelties. ‘That is true,’ replied Sir Fra... ...had no truth.’ ‘T ruth! that was what feu M. le Baron ever talked of; what Huguenots weary one with.’ 49 The Chaplet of Pearls ‘And the only thing wo... ...y, and that the gentlemen were chiefly of the King’s new friends among the Huguenots, such as Coligny, his son-in-law Teligny, Rochefoucauld, and the ... ...he Baron’s doctrine—he spread it. It was reported that there was a nest of Huguenots on the estate. My cousin came to break it up with his gens d’arme...

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...o, on their side, expect to rid themselves of him. The prince will use the Huguenots to protect himself. Why should the son of a fur- rier get himself... ...l the time.” “They will kill me here.” “Why?” “The most powerful among the Huguenots have cast their eyes on me to serve them in a certain matter; if ... ... between the Crown and the Guises.” “Does he think that I ought to use the Huguenots as a weapon?” “ Ah! madame,” cried Chiverni, surprised at such as... ... of Florence.” “I am certainly disposed to lend a hand, for a time, to the Huguenots,” said Catherine, “if only to revenge myself on that soldier and ... ...is one thing to be considered,” said the queen. “The Bourbons may fool the Huguenots and the Sieurs Calvin and de Beze may fool the Bourbons, but are ... ...Calvin and de Beze may fool the Bourbons, but are we strong enough to fool Huguenots, Bourbons, and Guises? In presence of three such enemies it is al... ...ret knew what she was about when she de- clared herself protectress of the Huguenots! She has a batter- ing-ram in the Reformation, and she knows how ... ...teau de Blois is built; “we should have an assault without any result; the Huguenots could come and go at will. Blois is an open hall with four entran... ...re standing between two win- dows on the other side of the fireplace. “The Huguenots are bestirring themselves,” said Cypierre. “We know that Theodore...

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... convictions and satisfy their wants would never have occurred to the French Huguenots if the religious wars of the sixteenth century and the Revocati... ...ical and religious ideas; they were not driven out with fire and sword as the Huguenots were driven from France. Why, then, one wonders, did the French...

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...f recovery since the country had been at peace, and the persecution of the Huguenots had ceased, that at first the taxation provoked few murmurs. The ... ...l from the Parliament of Paris, by getting his edict of toleration for the Huguenots registered at Nantes. The peculiarly oppressive house-tax, with f... ... again to hear her mother tongue, although she had suffered much among the Huguenots in her youth, when her hus- band was left for dead on the S. Bart... ... from the 92 Stray Pearls sects that distracted England as we do from the Huguenots; and it was almost as much against my brother’s conscience to joi... ...pent family were well known as inclined to the Fronde party. They had been Huguenots, but had joined the Church 104 Stray Pearls some twenty years be... ...y years before, as it was said, because of the in- creased disabilities of Huguenots in the legal profession, and it was averred that much of the fact... ...lready in the world; but she retained enough of her old training among the Huguenots to make her insist that since God had given her children, it was ... ...he Abbe St. Leu, which had con- tained no monks ever since the time of the Huguenots. He could go into Paris and return again before his turn to chang...

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...ated in the Rue des Marmousets for the interviews and con- ventions of the Huguenots, being one of them, without know- ing, however, that the Prince o... ...ve,—the said Avenelles found himself in a great fix. To the council of the Huguenots came the Prince of Conde, accompanied by all the chiefs and bigwi... ... number of those conspirators who were not prosecuted, and returned to the Huguenots, for whom he worked hard in Germany. Poor Madame Avenelles, pray ...

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...ion from the West—far exceeding that which Pedro de Avila wrought upon the Huguenots. And he rests and remains, kissing her feet and her hands, her sl... ...ns. She cannot remember the name of Pedro de Avila, nor what he did to the Huguenots, nor when, nor where. She can only see darkly some dark motion mo... ...hilip’s last letter. 30 Rewards and Fairies ‘“De Avila that destroyed the Huguenots? What d’you know of him?” she says. The music called from the hou...

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...many vicissitudes. Pillaged by the Normans in the ninth century and by the Huguenots in the sixteenth, it re- ceived its death-blow from the Revolutio... ... the young queen as watching from this balcony the noyades of the captured Huguenots in the Loire. The facts of history are bad enough; the fictions a... ... 1661, just after his arrest, which had taken place at Nantes. Here, also, Huguenots and Vendeans have suffered effective captivity. I walked round th...

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...ose was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second La Rochelle of it. Many citizens, seeing t... ... concealed or public, secret or open wars, there were robbers, mendicants, Huguenots, wolves, and scoundrels, who made war upon everybody. The citizen... ...s readily against thieves, wolves or scoun- drels, often against nobles or Huguenots, sometimes against the king, but never against cardinal or Spain.... ...a great misfortune in time of war, seeing that it is nothing but a nest of Huguenots, but which is, in time of peace, a frightful example. Tell me, no... ...sfactory.” “Which?” “As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Hu- guenots and the ... ...’s neck would be a smaller sin than to twist those of these poor devils of Huguenots, who have committed no other crime than singing in French the psa... ..., the sack of La Rochelle, and the assassination of three of four thousand Huguenots who allowed themselves to be killed, would resemble too closely, ...

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...nd not the queen-mother!” exclaimed the duke. “What is happening? Have the Huguenots taken arms again? T ete-Dieu!” cried the old man, rising to his f...

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...ved of my grandfather’s conduct without a scruple, and have laughed at the Huguenots. T errified by her coldness, and her little affection for her chi...

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...here I should have been so warmly received by the same number of people. We were English boating-men, and the Belgian boating- men fell upon our necks...

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... effect on me. I was dreaming of my box at the Opera for a year after. The Huguenots to-night. Not the best suited for little Mabsy; but she’ll catch ... ...Victor hinted notes of the Conspiration Scene closing the Third Act of the Huguenots. That sombre Chorus brought Mrs. Burman before him. He drummed th... ...ks and bolts, clock wrong, hands and arms, kneeling— the fourth act of the Huguenots!’ ‘He went by way of the window, I think. But that was a lover.’ ...

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...ole party to which he be- longs; there is Coligny, for instance, among the Huguenots, the Coadjuteur in the time of the Fronde, the Marechal de Richel...

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...n that day all the great leaders of the Protestants (who were there called Huguenots) were assembled together, for the purpose, as was represented to ... ...e to be lieve by his mother and other fierce Catholics about him that the Huguenots meant to take his life; and he was per suaded to give secret ord... ...ent’s peace afterwards; that he was continually crying out that he saw the Huguenots covered with blood and wounds falling dead before him; and that h... ...de Burgh 143 Huddleston 422 Hugh de Morville 103 Hugh le Despenser 181 Huguenots 331 Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford 164 I Ireton 376 Ironside...

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...t great, for the Abbey had been burnt down a century and a half ago by the Huguenots, and there had never been any monks in it since, so the only effe...

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...aise was the endive of the kitchen garden: and when on the occasion of the Huguenots the dif- ficulty of changing religion was spoken of, he declared ... ...s passed their lives in zeal and good works. Madame Chardon converted many Huguenots. The Comte d’Auvergne took his wife to her. The Countess was conv... ... the revocation of the edict of Nantes, the King determined to convert the Huguenots by means of dragoons and torture, a regiment was sent to Orleans,... ...n to leave the town, to make the slightest disorder; to say no word to the Huguenots, and not to lodge in their houses. He re- solved to be obeyed, an... ...ity, so op- posed to that of nearly all the other dioceses, gained as many Huguenots as were gained by the barbarities they suffered elsewhere. It nee... ..., I say, would not give the slightest approbation to this onslaught on the Huguenots. The magnificent establishment of Saint-Cyr, followed closely upo...

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...the constancy with which, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the Huguenots endured persecution—as, for instance, the large number of women w...

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...countrymen; and so we are, compared to the place we are in; and if you are Huguenots, and I a Catholic, we may all be Christians at last; at least, we...

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... nests built in the walls and arches of the old churches, destroyed by the Huguenots. Again, he was appre- hensive, seeing the space which this grave ... ...d some observations upon that edict of January—[1562, which granted to the Huguenots the public exercise of their religion.]—made fa- mous by our civi...

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...a certain savagery, a stolid calm which resembled the impassibility of the Huguenots; something, one might say, stupid, due perhaps to the utter repos...

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...and sound wall, that deserves to be preserved and whited. In favour of the Huguenots, who condemn our auricular and private confession, I confess myse...

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...e to dispose of him as of the mother. He was killed in some brawl with the Huguenots; so that the poor child is altogether an orphan, beholden to our ...

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...h, but,’ said she, ‘when these Venetians were rough men, chanting like our Huguenots, how cold it must have been here!’ She hoped she was not very wro...

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...es who penetrate en- chanted palaces, for instance, those of Raoul in the ‘Huguenots,’ and really I have nothing to complain of, for what I see makes ...

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...served as I would my own child, — you, whom I have served as I would a God — that is to say, for nothing. Wait awhile! wait awhile! you shall see what...

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...e that the Protestant faction in Bohemia should be suppressed be- fore the Huguenots could copy their danger- ous example. In order therefore to facil... ...eir assistance; and the French minister thought it necessary to subdue the Huguenots at home, before he supported the German Prot- estants against the... ...al of the Bavarian minister, represented this dreaded alliance between the Huguenots and the Swedes as an undoubted fact, and filled the timid mind of... ...oint of break- ing into the heart of France, to make common cause with the Huguenots, and to overturn the Catholic religion within the kingdom. Fanati...

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...hine maidens in Wagner’s Trilogy, and the bathers in the second act of Les Huguenots, to the ballets of water nymphs in our Christmas pantomimes and a...

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...l and daring. Wagner himself raved about the duet in the fourth act of Les Huguenots as wildly as anyone. Yet all this effect of originality and profu...

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... between these two mountain walls. It reminded me of the homesteads of the Huguenots, on Staten Island, off the coast of New Jersey. The hills in the ... ...gradually narrowing and rising to the centre, and at the head of these the Huguenots, who were the first settlers, placed their houses quite within th...

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...ing, and a general smash like the infernal orchestration at the end of the Huguenots… . Please pardon me for having been so long of writing, and show ...

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...large and influential portion of its citizens were sprung from a colony of Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— ...

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...he William Tell the music of an arous’d and angry people, I hear Meyerbeer’s Huguenots, the Prophet, or Robert, Gounod’s Faust, or Mozart’s Don Juan. ...