Word: isabelleã
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Sadly, the album manages to get much worse than this. “The King of Hell” is shockingly bad, coming off as closer to “Flight of the Conchords” than Bob Dylan. “Saint Isabelle?? also offers plenty of unwilling comedy. Its chorus, “I will always stand beside you, defend you and mend you, sanctify you,” might have seemed romantic in 13th-century France, but anyone born since then will recognize it as ridiculous...
...Night Falls,” which, along with “Saint Isabelle?? is one of the few non-political songs on the album, could be a sweet ballad if its lyrics weren’t so generic and basic...
...year is 1572, and in a village in the mountainous Cévennes region of sourthern France now under the control of itinerant Calvinist preacher Monsieur Marcel, expressing sympathy for a symbol of Catholic veneration is not a prudent act. Because legend says that the Virgin was a redhead, Isabelle??s hair—a “halo of copper”—earns her the villager’s suspicion that she practices witchcraft...
...Bartholomew’s Day massacre instigates a wave of violent attacks on Huguenots throughout France, Isabelle flees to Switzerland with Etienne and her children, hoping to find there religious toleration. As Ella and Rick’s marriage crumbles, Ella’s hair takes on Isabelle??s copper cast, and it is to a distant cousin’s home in Switzerland that Ella herself flees...
...Isabelle, Switzerland will not be be the land of freedom for her children she has envisaged. Chevalier is not remiss in reminding us that young lives can end tragically. The novel suggests that every family has a skeleton in the closet. (Or in Isabelle??s 16th century equivalent, a skeleton under the foundations of the house...