Word: huguenot
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...barely held off giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. last year by promising to mend its ways. The world's second biggest synthetic fiber manufacturer (after Du Pont), Courtaulds pledged an end to the secretive, damn-the-investor attitude prevailing since the firm was founded 147 years ago by Huguenot refugees named Courtauld. It also predicted that fiscal 1963 would bring a 30% rise in pre-tax earnings to $65 million...
Voltaire and the Calas Case, by Edna Nixon. Voltaire's memory is well served in this account of how the great skeptic roused Europe against France's execution of an innocent Huguenot...
...spare his family the disgrace of a suicide. Calas was then arrested, along with his wife and a younger son, and charged with the murder of Marc-Antoine. The authorities, well aware that no murder had been committed, knew what they were doing. The Calas family was openly Huguenot. The father had killed his son to prevent his conversion to Catholicism, the state claimed, citing a questionable passage from Calvin that seemed to demand the murder of converts. By convicting Calas, the authorities meant to discredit all Huguenots once and forever, with the hope that eventually they would be driven...
...beleaguered Protestants struggled to keep the faith alive. Carrying slats of wood, groups would assemble by night in quarries and grottoes, and fit their boards together to make a pulpit. Other pulpits were made that could be instantly transformed into ladders at the approach of the authorities. Most Huguenot houses had hiding places built into the walls for fugitives like the young shepherd, Pierre Laporte, whose nom de guerre was "Roland...
...Roland's cottage, the bankers and farmers, miners, office workers and their wives, who are carrying on the faith of the embattled camisards, renewed their sense of what is now a faraway tradition, listening to a sermon out of doors from a collapsible pulpit, and studying such Huguenot relics as a clandestine pastor's flat hat that can fold into the shape...