All 5 Uses of
Huguenots
in
Les Miserables
- Sir, sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of her infant and the death of her conscience.†
Chpt 1.1
- , the Huguenot king, with the material for an oath.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- A man kept his hat on in the presence of a procession—it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys.†
Chpt 3.1
- 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.†
Chpt 5.2
- At the point where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye separate, they picked up a singular Huguenot medal in copper, bearing on one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf with a tiara on his head.†
Chpt 5.2
Definition:
French Protestants who migrated to England in the 17th century after fleeing religious persecution from Catholic France