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...historic massacre of the Huguenots (a name given from about the middle of the 16th Century to the Protestants of France), so called because it began in Paris on St. Batholomew's Day, Aug. 24, 1572. It was planned by Catherine de' Medici, primarily as revenge upon Admiral Coligny, but later being broadened in scope so as to include the slaughter at one blow of all the Huguenot leaders, thus ruining the Protestant party in France. At length persuading the King that the massacre was a measure of public safety, she succeeded in wringing from him his consent...
...sought him out in the top floor of a gloomy dormitory where he was gayly pitching pennies of a Winter afternoon. Shortly after that, S. V. B. published his first book of poems. Since then he has published two others and three novels. Until his latest novel, Jean Huguenot, I had thought him more poet than novelist. In Jean, however, he has drawn a character of charm and power...
...Wayside Players of Scarsdale contested there?ah me!?the Riverside Players of Greenwich, the Huguenot Players of New Rochelle! From the polar heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir. The Circle Players, the Temple Players, the East-West Players, the Players' League, the Stockbridge Stocks?these five arose from Manhattan, and girded their loins with batik and fine linen and came. Brooklyn, fair Brooklyn of the poets, sent forth the Adelphi Dramatic Association, the Brooklyn Institute Players, the Clark Street Players?mighty clans...
After the settlement of the Cape by the Dutch East India Company, affairs rapidly went from bad to worse. A harsh rule, combined with slavery and forced labor, soon drove out many of the Dutch inhabitants, who worked northward and finally settled down in the Transvaal. A large French Huguenot element had come in at this time, and as a result nearly two thirds of the Boers today are of French descent...
...Wednesday, at matinee and evening performances, handsome souvenir books, containing portraits and biographies of every opera produced during the year, will be distributed free to patrons. The opera selected for this great week is Meyerbeer's "The Huguenots." Preparation for this in every department has been thorough and the production will be the best ever seen in Boston. The cast, which is an unusually strong one, follows: Marguerite de Valois, wife of King Henry IV, Mlle. Fatmah Diard; Count de St. Bris, Catholic Governor of the Louvre, Mr. William Wolff; Valentine, his daughter, Miss Clara Lane, Miss Nina Bertini Humphrys...