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Letter: Blind to oomph on South Bank
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Sir: Sir Brian Corby's letter of 16 August defended Lord
Rogers' South Bank proposals against Robert Maxwell's attack
(Letters, 13 August) by quoting Sir Leslie Martin's approval of the
shielding his Royal Festival Hall will receive from those later
monsters next door. But that is not enough.
Maxwell's negativism illustrates the seizure the Brits suffer
when anything bright appears. Pettyfogging nit-picking killed Mies
van der Rohe's Mansion House tower, Zaha Hadid's Welsh National
Opera House, Santiago Calatrava's east London bridge and Sir Norman
Foster's scintillating skyscraper, grey ...
 "The Economist (US)")
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Changing shadows; Multicultural London.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...Swiss and Walloon co-religionists. Later, after 1681, the Huguenots became subject to a form of persecution known as the dragonnades, in which rowdy soldiers were billeted in their houses, and in 1685 Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had given...
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Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...Protestant ministers, the Capuchin missions in Poitou, forty-hours devotions, Catholic processions, judicial enquiries, the dragonnades).At the same time, he shows how they reacted to the efforts to separate forcibly the two religious groups, initiatives...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...his Catholic advisers to resume persecution of Protestants. In 1685 the Edict of Nantes was revoked. Under a policy of "dragonnades" the rowdiest Catholic soldiers were officially billeted in Protestant homes and their misconduct there was overlooked by...
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Persecution of a minority.
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...property, and terrorized family members who refused to listen to the Catholic message. These were the first of the famous "dragonnades," which intendants, as the king's agents were called, began to use more frequently around the country. In Languedoc...
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The Huguenot Soldiers of William of Orange and the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688: the Lions of Judah.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion
; ...Unfortunately, once away from its core study of Huguenot officers, the book struggles with accuracy and context. The dragonnades began in 1681, not 1680 (p. 27). No-one would have become a denizen after having already been naturalized, since...
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