huguenots in A Sentence

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    The Huguenots were forced to leave France because of their religion.

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    Millais was inspired to create the painting after seeing Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.

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    In 1572 some 3000 Huguenots were slaughtered in Paris in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

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    Another response of the Huguenots was to flee France. This emigration has been called a veritable diaspora.

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    Thereafter, the city erupted and Catholics massacred Huguenots by the thousands across Paris and other cities.

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    It was set up in 1694 by a grouping of wealthy merchants, somewhat“nouveau riche”, Whigs & Huguenots.

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    Between 1657 and 1685, about 300 rulings, often suggested by the clergy, were made against the Huguenots.

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    For instance, a vast array of professions, such as medicine, law, and even midwifery, were forbidden to Huguenots.

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    Thus, the separatist aspirations of the Huguenots and their dreams of creating their own republic, independent of the king, came to end forever.

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    Indeed, as historians have noted, it is not possible to consider the Huguenots' story without thinking about“ the mechanisms of power and their perversions.”.

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    The third war ended with the Peace of St. Germain in August 1570, although tensions remained high and occasional massacres of Huguenots continued to occur throughout France.

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    Nonetheless, under threat of attacks from the Huguenots, the king maintained the castle's defensive capabilities by making it a military outpost and by installing artillery on the château's upper terraces.

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    Since you deem it well to kill the Admiral, I agree, but all the Huguenots in France must likewise perish, so that not one be left later to upbraid me.

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    The program included the overtures to Auber's La muette de Portici and Rossini's William Tell, the first two acts of Halévy's 1835 opera La Juive(with Gabrielle Krauss in the title role), along with“The Consecration of the Swords” from Meyerbeer's 1836 opera Les Huguenots and the 1866 ballet La source with music by Delibes and Minkus.

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    The method in question seems to have been developed by the Huguenots of France who, after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which had previously given them certain religious freedoms and rights, were forced to flee to Britain where they soon shared their little trade secret with British hatters, with it spreading from there.

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