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 Translation for 'Huguenots' from English to Russian
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NOUN   a Huguenot | Huguenots
ист.религ.
гугеноты {мн}
Huguenots
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Translation for 'Huguenots' from English to Russian

Huguenots
гугеноты {мн}ист.религ.
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Usage Examples English
  • Nelson held a keen interest in local history as well as interests in the plight of French Protestants, the Huguenots, and the Reformation.
  • A fervent Calvinist, she made Sedan a center of French huguenots and kept a strict and Spartan court.
  • Lecoq de Boisbaudran was a member of a noble family of Huguenots from the French provinces of Poitou and Angoumois.
  • Jean de Sponde's later poetry is impregnated with the major themes of the so-called French "baroque" poetry of the period and with the moral concerns of the huguenots.
  • The main provisions of the Edict of Nantes (1598), which Henry IV had issued as a charter of religious freedoms for the Huguenots, allowed Huguenots to hold religious services in certain towns in each province, allowed them to control and fortify eight cities, established special courts to try Huguenots, and gave Huguenots the same civil rights as Catholics.

  • The growing persecution of the Huguenots culminated with the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685.
  • This area was also settled by French Huguenots, who had fled to England and then the colonies in the late 1600s and early 1700s to escape Catholic persecution in France.
  • In October 1985, to commemorate the tricentenary of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, President François Mitterrand of France announced a formal apology to the descendants of Huguenots around the world.
  • The region served as a stronghold for the Protestant Huguenots during the 16th and 17th centuries, who suffered persecution at the hands of the French Catholics.
  • Bourges received news of the massacre on the 27th, by which time many of the town's Huguenots, including François Hotman had already fled the town due to the earlier news of the assassination attempt on Gaspard II de Coligny.

  • The Huguenots initiated peaceful negotiations with the Esopus tribe, agreeing to a land contract with five of their chiefs and 21 of their natives.
  • His parents were both huguenots. He was therefore also raised in that faith.
  • After the French Wars of Religion broke out between French Catholics and Huguenots, Ribault fled France and sought refuge in England.
  • The poem is a fictionalized retelling of the French Wars of Religion, a bloody conflict primarily occurring between Catholics and Huguenots from 1562 to 1598.
  • Huguenots of Spitalfields is a registered charity promoting public understanding of the Huguenot heritage and culture in Spitalfields, the City of London and beyond.

  • The French Huguenots had originally introduced chicory-based coffee to South Africa and the product became entrenched in the local coffee culture.
  • In France, the Huguenots were finally defeated by Royal forces in the Siege of La Rochelle (1627–1628): Cardinal Richelieu blockaded the city for 14 months, until the city surrendered and lost its mayor and its privileges.
  • Like the Pilgrims, many of these Huguenots later left Leiden for the New World.
  • Described as a Catholic fanatic, she supported Henry's persecution of the huguenots in Lorraine, and supported his decree in which all Protestants were ordered to leave Lorrain before 20 April 1617.
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