Word: huguenot
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Griet’s poignant gaze captivates the 17th-century Dutch painter and Chevalier’s readers alike. Yet before there was a Griet to challenge the muse’s expected passivity, there was a spirited Huguenot peasant called Isabelle...
Blue is the color of the beautiful “Catholic cloth”—a “soft wool, dyed very deep”—for which Isabelle resists Huguenot mores in buying from a peddlar. Blue is also the color of the distant horizon of the Cévennes mountains that Isabelle has left behind...
...touches such as ostrich filet, Cape Malay curry and water-lily and lamb casserole. Service is excellent, and the local wine is abundant, inexpensive and palatable. Several of the score of multistar restaurants are among the country's Top 10. Indeed, the mountain-ringed valley of Franschoek, where French Huguenot settlers arrived 300 years ago, bringing their winemaking skills with them, is something of a gourmet capital...
...Raise the Red Lantern. Nikita Mikhalkov intended his Burned by the Sun as a Russian Gone With the Wind, a story of country life amid the turmoil of tyranny, but it was meandering and cloying. As for Patrice Chereau's Queen Margot, an epic melodrama set in Huguenot times starring Adjani, it had Hollywood values galore: dark intrigue, plenty of body hacking and bodice ripping, and a budget of $25 million, France's largest ever. But the picture was a mess. That Zhang and Mikhalkov shared the second-place Grand Jury Prize was seen as the jury's amicable...
...scholarship given only to those of French Huguenot descent is not designed to eliminate the French Catholic population at Harvard...