Word: huguenots
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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...