New Rochelle and The Three Musketeers
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Did you know that a piece of New Rochelle history (or maybe the city’s pre-history) is mentioned right there in the first sentence of The Three Musketeers?
Here’s the sentence from the Alexandre Dumas novel, courtesy of the Web site QuotesandPoem.Com:
“On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of ROMANCE OF THE ROSE was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second La Rochelle of it.”
All of you who have any familiarity with New Rochelle can see it off the bat.
The Huguenots were religious group that left France under persecution. Leaving the city of La Rochelle, France, a group of them settled in what is now New Rochelle. The most prominent intersection in the city’s downtown is the crossing of North Avenue and Huguenot Street.
The New Rochelle High School athletes are called the Huguenots.
The topic arose in a debate I am having with co-blogger Randi Weiner. See the post “Debate: Crime and Punishment.”
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