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...Set in the days of the religious wars of Europe, St. Bartholomew's Eve is the tale of the Huguenot's desperate fight for freedom of worship in France. As the struggle intensifies the plot thickens, culminating in the dreadful Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve. Henty, The Boy's Own Storyteller weaves the life and a...

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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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...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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...d of mod- ern days does not. The details of Millais’ Inquisition or of his Huguenot may be in error in spite of all his study and diligence, but they ... ... 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... ... tower, leaving his brother, the Chevalier, to con- duct the attack on the Huguenot conventicle. ‘He had no power or right to remove her,’ said the Ba... ... The next morning the Baron was summoned to speak to one of his farmers, a Huguenot, who had come to inform him that, through the network of intel- li... ...tacie. Her father would at once have pleaded that she was being bred up in Huguenot errors. All that could be done was to hasten the departure ere the... ...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; ... ...saw there was not congenial to him, but he liked it vastly better than the Huguenot meeting, and was not pre- pared to understand or enter into Mr. Ad... ...en one of the party turned suddenly and said, ‘But I forget, Monsieur is a Huguenot?’ ‘I am a Protestant of the English Church,’ said Berenger, rather...

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... the new instrument he was about to use. “My child,” said Chaudieu, in the Huguenot style of ad- dress, “we are about to do battle for the first time ... ...hen each man, prince or burgher, must do his duty.” “There speaks the true Huguenot. If all our men were like that,” said La Renaudie, laying his hand... ... a stern voice. “I would rather see him hanged and saved than living and a Huguenot,” she answered, gloomily. “T o think that a child whom I carried n... ...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 ... ...ar as he had done when he mentioned the name of the Prince of Conde, “be a Huguenot, if you have that vice; but be so cautiously, in the depths of you... ... I see that your old father can speak plainly with you. But do not be more Huguenot than Messieurs de Coligny. Never draw your sword; be a pen man; ke... ...or twice where Christophe could be, and the father and mother of the young Huguenot gave evasive answers; but when the two families were seated at tab... ... 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...

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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... ...and twice we slept at large old convents, where nobody had lived since the Huguenot times, except a lay brother put in by M. l’Abbe to look after the ... ... Annora. ‘I think,’ said Eustace, ‘that the wrong and persecution that his Huguenot grandfather suffered at the hands of his French family have had mu... ... 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... ...at his father was a counselor in the Parliament, who had originally been a Huguenot, but had converted himself with all his family, and had since held... ...rk, and she did not like him the less for having retained something of the Huguenot gravity. The dinner was extremely pleasant; we followed it up by a... ...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...

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...tions of the past are woven, is a more constant element of progress than the Huguenot’s idol breaking hammer. Reverence and irreverence are both neede... ... 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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...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 ... ...ning his purse to save his life. It goes without saying that when he saw a Huguenot coming, he felt himself filled with such ardent Catholic zeal that... ...olic—my father, faithful to his principles, having made my elder brother a Huguenot.” “And what was the end of this worthy man?” asked D’Artagnan. “Oh... ...tunate kind, monsieur. One day he was surprised in a lonely road between a Huguenot and a Catholic, with both of whom he had before had business, and ... ...her went and hid himself on the road of the Catholic, and I on that of the Huguenot. Two hours after, all was over; we had done the business of both, ...

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...over, we have inherited a princely for- tune from your cousin; that cursed Huguenot, Georges de Chaverny is killed.” The countess turned pale and drop... ...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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...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... ... confess, I had a curiosity to see what had been the starting-point of the Huguenot emigrants who founded the town of New Rochelle in the State of New...

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...by an Englishman, the Duke of Berwick, and the English by a Frenchman, the Huguenot Rubigne, Earl of Galway. The first English charge was, however, fa... ...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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... 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... ... the martial-religious. T o what heights of spiritual grandeur might not a Huguenot France have marched! Dudley Sowerby, heedlessly, under an emotion ... ...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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...idy of Harlay. He had been entrusted with a valuable deposit by Ruvigny, a Huguenot officer, who, quitting France, had en- tered the service of the Pr... ... of Orange, and who was, with the exception of Marshal Schomberg, the only Huguenot to whom the King offered the permission of remaining at Court with... ...ntchartrain and the daughter of the Comte de Roye. The Comte de Roye was a Huguenot, and, at the revocation of the edict of Nantes, had taken refuge, ... ...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 ... ...very strange and uncommon. When she married the Comte d’Auvergne she was a Huguenot, and he much wanted to make her turn Catholic. A famous advocate o... ...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...

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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... ...ise; he is as- tonished at the King of Navarre’s energy, therefore he is a Huguenot; he finds this to say of the manners of the king, he is therefore ...

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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... ... but the life was monotonous; she insisted that 43 George Meredith it was Huguenot; harsh, nasal, sombre, insolent, self-suffi- cient. Her eyes light... ...hear of the children of misers? and I say I am certain that those old cold Huguenot stonecutters were proud and grasp- ing. I am sure they were, and t...

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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 ... ...cend! I have had the statesman, the earl, the courtly knight, the pedantic Huguenot, for my ward- ers. Now am I come to the clown. Soon will it be the...

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...ightly raising and softening the object of study (as in the case of the ex-Huguenot, Duke de Montausier, 3 for the study of the Misanthrope, and, acc...

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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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...eason? He put his finger in the pie without being asked. Then why was he a huguenot before the others? To return, however to our sweet little Philippe... ...l,” said she, laughing. “Why, look at Lavalliere, who is suspected to be a Huguenot; he is converted by my dear little Limeuil, who does not play her ...