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The Refugees
The story is set against the backdrop of the 17th-century Huguenot persecution in France, focusing on the intertwined lives of Amory de Catinat, a soldier in the Blue Guard of Louis XIV, and his cousin Adele Catinat, the daughter of a prosperous Huguenot merchant.
"The Refugees" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a historical novel. The story is set against the backdrop of the 17th-century Huguenot persecution in France, focusing on the intertwined lives of Amory de Catinat, a soldier in the Blue Guard of Louis XIV, and his cousin Adele Catinat, the daughter of a prosperous Huguenot merchant.
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It was the sort of window which was common in Paris about the end of the seventeenth century. It was high, mullioned, with a broad transom across the centre, and above the middle of the transom a tiny coat of arms—three caltrops gules upon a field argent—let into the diamond-paned glass. Outside there projected a stout iron rod, from which hung a gilded miniature of a bale of wool which swung and squeaked with every puff of wind. Beyond that again were the houses of the other side, high, narrow, and prim, slashed with diagonal wood-work in front, and topped with a bristle of sharp gables and corner turrets. Between were the cobble-stones of the Rue St. Martin and the clatter of innumerable feet.
Inside, the window was furnished with a broad bancal of brown stamped Spanish leather, where the family might recline and have an eye from behind the curtains on all that was going forward in the busy world beneath them. Two of them sat there now, a man and a woman, but their backs were turned to the spectacle, and their faces to the large and richly furnished room. From time to time they stole a glance at each other, and their eyes told that they needed no other sight to make them happy.
Contents
- 01Part I. — in the Old World.
- 02Chapter I — the Man from America.
- 03Chapter II — a Monarch in Deshabille.
- 04Chapter III — the Holding of the Door.
- 05Chapter IV — the Father of His People.
- 06Chapter V — Children of Belial.
- 07Chapter VI — a House of Strife.
- 08Chapter VII — the New World and the Old.
- 09Chapter VIII — the Rising Sun.
- 10Chapter IX — Le Roi S'amuse.
- 11Chapter X — an Eclipse at Versailles.
- 12Chapter XI — the Sun Reappears.
- 13Chapter XII — the King Receives.
- 14Chapter XIII — the King Has Ideas.
- 15Chapter XIV — the Last Card.
- 16Chapter XV — the Midnight Mission.
- 17Chapter XVI — "When the Devil Drives."
- 18Chapter XVII — the Dungeon of Portillac.
- 19Chapter XVIII — a Night of Surprises.
- 20Chapter XIX — in the King's Cabinet.
- 21Chapter XX — the Two Francoises.
- 22Chapter XXI — the Man in the Caleche.
- 23Chapter XXII — the Scaffold of Portillac.
- 24Chapter XXIII — the Fall of the Catinats.
- 25Part II. — in the New World.
- 26Chapter XXIV — the Start of the "Golden Rod."
- 27Chapter XXV — a Boat of the Dead.
- 28Chapter XXVI — the Last Port.
- 29Chapter XXVII — a Dwindling Island.
- 30Chapter XXVIII — in the Pool of Quebec.
- 31Chapter XXIX — the Voice at the Port-Hole.
- 32Chapter XXX — the Inland Waters.
- 33Chapter XXXI — the Hairless Man.
- 34Chapter XXXII — the Lord of Sainte Marie.
- 35Chapter XXXIII — the Slaying of Brown Moose.
- 36Chapter XXXIV — the Men of Blood.
- 37Chapter XXXV — the Tapping of Death.
- 38Chapter XXXVI — the Taking of the Stockade.
- 39Chapter XXXVII — the Coming of the Friar.
- 40Chapter XXXVIII — the Dining Hall of Sainte Marie.
- 41Chapter XXXIX — the Two Swimmers.
- 42Chapter XL.
- 43The End.
- 44Note on the Huguenots and Their Dispersion.
- 45Note on the Future of Louis, Madams De Maintenon, and Madame De Montespan.
About this edition
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 295 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers