Sample Sentences forHuguenots (auto-selected)
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In 1685 it was declared illegal to be a Protestant in France. Hundreds of thousands of Huguenots fled to surrounding Protestant countries.Huguenots = French Protestants who migrated to England in the 17th century after fleeing religious persecution from Catholic France
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His ancestors were Huguenots, refugees of a chained and bloody Europe.† (source)
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A Huguenot, or rather the grandson of Huguenots, but he didn't hold grudges, so the food was superb.† (source)
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Our first American ancestors were French Huguenots.† (source)
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I have always observed that they bandage people's eyes who penetrate enchanted palaces, for instance, those of Raoul in the 'Huguenots,' and really I have nothing to complain of, for what I see makes me think of the wonders of the 'Arabian Nights.'† (source)
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I have a box for 'Les Huguenots.'† (source)
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It was impossible to study the history of South Carolina without encountering the venerable Huguenot name of St. Croix again and again.† (source)
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Crime, intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; the maillotins in the fourteenth century, the tire-laine of the fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's illuminated in the seventeenth, the chauffeurs [brigands] in the eighteenth.† (source)
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The Andrews branch my mother came from represents the mix most usual in the Southeast—English, Scottish, Irish, with a dash of French Huguenot.† (source)
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The massacre of the Huguenots.† (source)
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Three weeks after he arrived he was married, to the daughter of a family of Huguenot stock which had emigrated from Carolina by way of Kentucky.† (source)
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Jay, too, could be combative and stubborn, and as the descendant of French Huguenots, he had little liking for the Bourbon Court.† (source)
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The mother of Augustine was a Huguenot French lady, whose family had emigrated to Louisiana during the days of its early settlement.† (source)
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I had planned a little pleasure for her that afternoon, to repay her for some of the glorious moments she had given me when we used to milk together in the straw-thatched cowshed and she, because I was more than usually tired, or because her husband had spoken sharply to me, would tell me of the splendid performance of the Huguenots she had seen in Paris, in her youth.† (source)
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He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.† (source)
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To conspire, no doubt, with your enemies, the Huguenots and the Spaniards.† (source)
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