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Sentence Examples He examines Huguenot temples, the symbol of the Protestant place in France. One chronologer, the Huguenot scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger, won renown for his reformation of the traditional approach to chronology. In the end there were over two million members of the Huguenot churches in France. During that year he sold both goods raised on the farm and general store merchandise similar to that sold at the family store on Huguenot Street. And how did Huguenot outlook differ from that of their cross-channel puritan brethren? He ordered that a huge mole be built across the harbour at La Rochelle which made any Huguenot attempt to land supplies impossible. The premise that this biblical style was started by a French Huguenot teacher even seems debatable. However, Huguenot immigration was so great that after a few years the congregation became too large for the building. We have stayed in both and recommend them for the Huguenot spirit they reveal. Vasari vividly depicts the Huguenot leader Admiral Coligny being thrown out of an upstairs window, while his followers are put to the sword in the foreground. The dove in the downward position is also taken from the traditional Huguenot cross and is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Originally settled by French Huguenot refugees, the town has maintained a strong French tradition. A portion of the N1 between the Huguenot Tunnel Toll Plaza and the Hugo's River Viaduct would be widened to a five-lane cross-section. City of Huguenot influences and city of bishops, Uzès went through difficult time during the religious wars. Two centuries before that, Huguenot refugees from France were mocked for their affectations and saw their fashion and recipes tacitly copied. From 1762, he began to champion unjustly persecuted people, the case of Huguenot merchant Jean Calas being the most celebrated. The name was used by exiled Huguenot families, including the ancestors of American actor Johnny Depp. At the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Dieppe lost 3,000 of its Huguenot citizens, who fled abroad. Huguenot numbers peaked near an estimated two million by 1562, concentrated mainly in the southern and western parts of France. Huguenot rebellions in the 1620s prompted the abolishment of their political and military privileges. Show More Sentences This is true for areas in the west and south controlled by the Huguenot nobility. In the south, towns like Castres, Montauban, Montpellier and Nimes were Huguenot strongholds. Huguenot emigrees in the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa and Australia still retain their identity. Some Huguenot preachers and congregants were attacked as they attempted to meet for worship. Huguenot numbers grew rapidly between 1555 and 1561, chiefly amongst nobles and city dwellers. With the proclamation of the Edict of Nantes, and the subsequent protection of Huguenot rights, pressures to leave France abated. Then he imposed penalties, closed Huguenot schools and excluded them from favoured professions. In the United States there are several Huguenot worship groups and societies. The Huguenot Society of America has headquarters in New York City and has a broad national membership. In Bad Karlshafen, Hessen, Germany is the Huguenot Museum and Huguenot archive. There, he rented rooms from a French Huguenot named Christopher Mountjoy, a maker of ladies' wigs and other headgear. Huguenot minister Daniel Chamier is among his ancestors, as is Sir William Burnaby, 1st Baronet. Isaac de Caus, the French Huguenot architect, designed the individual houses under Jones's overall design. In 1688 it sponsored the immigration of 200 French Huguenot refugees forced into exile by the Edict of Fontainebleau. In 1974, federated under the name Imetal, the Group acquired the French company Huguenot Fenal, an event which marked its entry into the clay roof tiles market. The HP 10 Huguenot Lauze-colored tile, designed for mountain regions, provides a stylish and economical alternative to traditional lauze by imitating perfectly the stone's destructured, stratified aspect. It brings back to live the Huguenot past and the history of the Camisards. The Huguenot Cross is a Protestant symbol, which has existed in various forms since the late 17th century as the emblem of French Protestant refugees. He was its secretary and guiding light for 15 years and he worked tirelessly to bring together Americans of Huguenot descent in order to foster in them an appreciation of their ancestors. The name of the farm arose because, as a protestant Irishman, William had married a French Huguenot refugee who had settled in Ireland but was originally from Bordeaux. Show More Sentences Built in 1719 as the grand family residence of Peter Ogier, a Huguenot silk merchant, the building has sheltered individuals from myriad different cultural backgrounds. On the walls of the chapel are the coats of arms of many of the leading Huguenot families, a constant reminder to present-day worshippers of their heritage. Built in the 16th and 17th centuries it belonged to the Admiral of Coligny during the wars of religion, and, so the story goes, it was in the round room on the top floor that the Huguenot plotters met. Maitland claimed that Chastelard's ardour was feigned, and that he was part of a Huguenot plot to discredit Mary by tarnishing her reputation. While many American Huguenot groups worship in borrowed churches, the congregation in Charleston has its own church. The official policy in the Dutch East India governors was to integrate the Huguenot and the Dutch communities. However, within three generations French was replaced by Dutch as the home language of most of the Huguenot descendants. A number of New Amsterdam's families were of Huguenot origin, often having emigrated as refugees to the Netherlands in the previous century. He became pastor of the first Huguenot church in North America in that city. Howard Hughes, famed investor, pilot, film director, and philanthropist, was also of Huguenot descent and descendant from Rev. The Huguenot Society of America maintains Manakin Episcopal Church in Virginia as an historic shrine with occasional services. One of the most prominent Huguenot refugees in the Netherlands was Pierre Bayle. Some Huguenot descendants in the Netherlands may be noted by French family names, although they typically use Dutch given names. The flight of Huguenot refugees from Tours, France drew off most of the workers of its great silk mills which they had built. Winston Churchill was probably one of the most prominent people of Huguenot descent, deriving from his American grandfather Leonard Jerome. Significant Huguenot settlements were in Dublin, Cork, Portarlington, Lisburn, Waterford and Youghal. A French church in Portarlington dates back to 1696, and was built to serve the significant new Huguenot community in the town. Around 1685, Huguenot refugees found a safe haven in the Lutheran and Reformed states in Germany and Scandinavia. Other founding families created enterprises based on textiles and such traditional Huguenot occupations in France. The death of the king's brother, in 1584, meant that the Huguenot King of Navarre had become heir presumptive to the throne of France. Show More Sentences The Martineau family was of French Huguenot ancestry and professed Unitarian views. Overall, Huguenot presence was heavily concentrated in the western and southern portions of the French kingdom, as nobles there secured practise of the new faith. One of the most active Huguenot groups is in Charleston, South Carolina. Huguenot regiments fought for William of Orange in the Williamite war in Ireland, for which they were rewarded with land grants and titles, many settling in Dublin. Thus, Hugues plus Eidgenosse by way of Huisgenoten supposedly became Huguenot, a nickname associating the Protestant cause with politics unpopular in France. Another Huguenot Cemetery is located off French Church street in Cork. Numerous signs of Huguenot presence can still be seen with names still in use, and with areas of the main towns and cities named after the people who settled there. A small group of Huguenots also settled on the south shore of Staten Island along the New York Harbor, for which the current neighbourhood of Huguenot was named. Some Huguenot immigrants settled in Central and Eastern Pennsylvania, such as Philip Woodring born 1741 in Alsace, France, and died 1819 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. A term used originally in derision, Huguenot has unclear origins. The French Huguenot Church of Charleston, which remains independent, is the oldest continuously active Huguenot congregation in the United States. Following the passage of the Edict of Fontainebleau, the Netherlands served as a major destination for French Huguenot refugees fleeing persecution at home. Born about 1645, it is likely that Exquemelin was a native of Honfleur, France, who on his return from buccaneering settled in Holland, possibly because he was a Huguenot. The Dutch Republic rapidly became a destination for Huguenot exiles. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the Dutch Republic received the largest group of Huguenot refugees, an estimated total of 75,000 to 100,000 people. Huguenot torte, a chewy, macaroonlike cake, looks and sounds like a French dish, but it is really a knockoff of Ozark pudding, a Midwestern dessert. In response to the Edict of Fontainebleau, Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg declared the Edict of Potsdam, giving free passage to Huguenot refugees. Many Walloon and Huguenot families were granted asylum there. Escalating, he instituted dragonnades, which included the occupation and looting of Huguenot homes by military troops, in an effort to forcibly convert them. Examples from Classical Literature He ordered all the Huguenot churches in the kingdom to be instantly demolished. They are, first of all, descendants of an old Huguenot family of excellent blood. It is very doubtful whether he was a Huguenot, and whenever in his works he refers to pederasty it is with strong disapproval. He sprang from a Huguenot family, and had first come forward in Dublin. The Huguenot wars were, however, as much political as religious. Huguenot and papist agreed in this, if they could agree in nothing else. Zacharie, his father, a Huguenot, was a distiller and merchant. The mother of Augustine was a Huguenot French lady, whose family had emigrated to Louisiana during the days of its early settlement. This little colony of the Banat belonged of course to the Huguenot exodus. We shall have him a tool of the Huguenot party before all is done. Menendez lost no time in attacking the Huguenot colonists of Carolina. Henri Abraham Chatelain was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. Find more words! 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