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The Refugees
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"Never such a one as that."
"Never one with so railing a tongue, I dare swear," said De Catinat.
"Never one with so lovely a face. And yet there is a lovely face at the
Rue St. Martin also."
"You seem to have a nice taste in beauty, for all your woodland training."
"Yes, for I have been cut away from women so much that when I stand before one I feel that she is something tender and sweet and holy."
"You may find dames at the court who are both tender and sweet, but you will look long, my friend, before you find the holy one. This one would ruin me if she can, and only because I have done what it was my duty to do. To keep oneself in this court is like coming down the La Chine Rapids where there is a rock to right, and a rock to left, and another perchance in front, and if you so much as graze one, where are y. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
British sports commentators used to be notorious for saying that football was a game of two halves, thereby clearing up any confusion that it might be a game of three halves. We might say the same of Arthur Conan Doyle’s historical novel, The Refugees.
The first part is probably the better one, and i
I’ve had a copy of this 1895 edition in my library for decades until I finally needed something different. Was it ever! I would never have guessed that that this book was written by the same man who created Sherlock Holmes—except that one character has a power of observation that Holmes would have a
I read this aloud to my boys, and it was not bad as a historical novel. I just didn’t feel Doyle had a great understanding of the Huguenot faith or why Huguenots would give up everything rather than recant. I felt that the best part of the novel was the first half, particularly the parts about Versa
I read this in my final year of secondary school (when I was still very religious), and these were my notes at the time: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Most definitely, one, if not THE, best books I have EVER read! I enjoyed it thoroughly due to the historical fact associated with the tale. Truly
Los refugiados, de Arthur Conan Doyle, consta de dos partes muy diferentes entre sí. La primera, ambientada en la Francia de Luis XIV; la segunda, en la colonización del continente americano. Como suele pasar en este tipo de novelas históricas, muchas de las aventuras narradas parecen excesivamente
Reads like Last of the Mohicans crossed with The Three Musketeers but about 10% as entertaining as it sounds. Utterly fascinated with life and intrigue at the French royal court but is disappointingly invested in the frankly absurd and pathetic examples of royalty it chronicles. Hard to believe that
This book presents a fictional account of a chain of events leading to the revocation of the 'Edict of Nantes', thereby withdrawing the royal protection from France's protestant minority. The novel follows a family who are forced to migrate to America and the experiences they face with supposedly sa
Published in 1893, The Refugees is a historical novel set mainly in France in 1690 under Louis XIV. The background appears to take in many historic events, including the persecution of the Huguenots, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and palace politics involving King Louis Mistress Madame de M