Word: huguenots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pigs & Cigarettes. Born in Russia of a Huguenot family, Fabergé had probably studied goldsmithing in Paris, but there was no evidence that he had done a lick of manual work on any of the works on exhibition. His genius was in his head and active enough to keep 700 artisans, mostly Finns, busy in his St. Petersburg workrooms. The imperial court was not Fabergé's only customer: every millionaire in Russia clamored for his wondrous candlesticks and parasol handles. In time he produced enameled pigs for the court of King Chulalongkorn of Siam, Buddhas and bowls...
Where are the beards of yesteryear-the "Spade," the "Tile," the "Uncle Sam," the "Van Dyke," the "Piccadilly Weeper," the "Cathedral?" Where is the like of Huguenot Admiral de Coligny's beard, which served as a pincushion for the admiral's toothpicks? Where is the beaver of iyth Century Bishop Camus of Bellai-a growth so formidable that he used to split it up, as an aid to memory, into the necessary sections and subsections of his sermons? And where is the beard of Austrian Burgomaster Hans Steininger-the one in which he caught his toe, tripped...
...Paris as SHAEF assistant political officer); and one Roger Déchame, 23, a sailor in the French Navy, whom she met while christening the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, named for the historic Revolutionary fort on the Pell's upstate New York estate; in Manhattan's French Huguenot Church of Saint-Esprit...
...familiar Gide signal. For Protestantism has been the driving and pursuing force of Gide's life. "Being at odds with his time," Gide once said, " - that is what gives the artist his reason for being." As a child, Gide was at odds with practically everything. His rich, Huguenot parents were part of France's sternly Protestant minority...
...Editor Cope thus got at two festering divisions in South African life: 1) between the Union's 2,000,000 whites and its 8,000,000 submerged, nonvoting blacks; 2) between the white, minority "English" (mostly second, third or fourth generation) and the white Afrikanders (Dutch and Huguenot descent). Just what a republic would do for the whites, who already have a free vote in the Union's parliamentary system, was not clear; it presumably would do nothing for the blacks...