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JACQUERIE, THE

JACQUERIE, THE , an insurrection of the See also:

French peasantry which See also:

broke out in the Ile de See also:

France and about See also:

BEAUVAIS

Beauvais at the end of May 1358. The hardships endured by the peasants in the See also:

HUNDRED

Hundred Years' See also:

War and their hatred for the nobles who oppressed them were the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal causes which led to the rising, though the immediate occasion was an See also:

AFFRAY

affray which took See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place on the 28th of May at the See also:

VILLAGE

village of See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint-Leu between " brigands " (See also:

MILITIA (Fr. milice, Ger. Miliz, from Lat. miles, soldier, militia, military service)

militia See also:

INFANTRY

infantry armoured in brigandines) and See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country-folk. The latter having got the upper See also:

hand See also:

UNITED

united with the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages and placed See also:

Guillaume Karle at their See also:

head. They destroyed numerous chateaux in the valleys of the See also:

OISE

Oise, the Breche and the Therain, where they subjected the whole countryside to See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire and See also:

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword, committing the most terrible atrocities. See also:

Charles the See also:

BAD, BCD

Bad, See also:

king of See also:

NAVARRE (Span. Navarra)

Navarre, crushed the See also:

REBELLION

rebellion at the See also:

BATTLE

battle of Mello on the loth of See also:

JUNE

June, and the nobles then took violent See also:

REPRISALS (Fr. represailles, from reprendre; Lat. reprehendere, to take back)

reprisals upon the peasants, massacring them in See also:

GREAT

great See also:

numbers. See See also:

Simeon Luce, Histoire de la Jacquerie (See also:

Paris, 1859 and 1895). (J.V.

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