Word: huguenots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paradine was a Huguenot ancestor who fled to England from Flanders in the 16th century...
...drop by the New York Public Library to read two volumes on The Demarest Family, a project first published in 1938 and financed in part by his grandfather. Or he can cross the Hudson River to Demarest, N.J., to visit the family cemetery or the home of French Huguenot David Demarest, who settled there...
...state struggle, four knights assassinated Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170, believing (with some reason) that Henry II wanted his former friend eliminated. The Reformation brought with it assassination as an instrument of religion, if not foreign policy, especially in the struggle between Roman Catholics and Huguenots in France. Before his accession to the throne, Henry III helped his mother, Catherine de Medicis, plot the assassination of Admiral Coligny and other Huguenot leaders. He himself was assassinated in 1589 by a monk; his successor, Henry of Navarre, a Huguenot who later became a Catholic, was murdered...
SANDERS THEATER--Cantata Singers. Bach: Cantatas Nos. 27, 125; Schoenberg: Dreimal tausend Jahre; Sweelinck: Huguenot Psalms. $5-$1. Wednesday, February...
...account of a solitary white boy's troubled 14th year on his family's ranch in southern Rhodesia, gracefully carries a fairly heavy load of earnest emotion. During a year of violent events that bring his childhood to an end, young François Joubert, whose Huguenot ancestors settled in Africa 300 years ago, encounters three men of extraordinary nobility: a Bushman-hunter, a prophet and healer, and a Matabele chief. Their influence moves him toward a rejection of European attitudes...