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Anne de Rohan, also known as Anne de Rohan-Soubise (1584–1646), was a French Huguenot poet and a leader in the fight for Calvinism. Rohan and her mother Catherine de Parthenay were principal figures at the famous Siege of La Rochelle.
Dowriche published her 2,400-line poem The French Historie in 1589. [20] 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 were French Protestants who harshly criticized the Catholic Church. They were widely persecuted in ...
In 1768 she married William Battier (d. c. 1794), [2] the estranged son of a Dublin banker of French Huguenot descent. [3] They had at least four children and she began writing in order to subsidize the family's income. [4] [5] Title page of The Kirwanade by Henrietta Battier (Dublin, 1791)
Two of his poems are melancholy pleas to the king on the subject of his incarceration or exile, and this tone of sadness is also present in his ode On Solitide which mixes classical motifs with an elegy about the poet in the midst of a forest. Théophile de Viau was "rediscovered" by the French Romantics in the 19th century.
Catherine Bernard (24 August 1663, in Rouen – 6 September 1712, in Paris) was a French poet, novelist, and playwright born into a Huguenot family. [1] She was the ...
Due to the Huguenots' early ties with the leadership of the Dutch Revolt and their own participation, some of the Dutch patriciate are of part-Huguenot descent. Some Huguenot families have kept alive various traditions, such as the celebration and feast of their patron Saint Nicolas, similar to the Dutch Sint Nicolaas (Sinterklaas) feast.
Charles J. Guiteau was born in Freeport, Illinois, the fourth of six children of Jane August (née Howe; 1814–1848) and Luther Wilson Guiteau (1810–1880), [1] whose family was of French Huguenot ancestry. [2] His mother died in 1848, and in 1850 he moved with his family to Ulao, Wisconsin (near current-day Grafton), where he lived until ...
Cara Delevingne (1992–), English actress and model, French Huguenot ancestry. [153] Poppy Delevingne (1986–), English actress and model, sister of Cara, French Huguenot ancestry. [153] Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959), American film-maker. [154] [155] Johnny Depp (1963–), American actor, descended from Jean and Pierre Dieppe of Dieppe ...