Stock Photo - France, History, The Jacquerie was a popular revolt in late medieval Europe by peasants that took place in northern France in the summer of 1358, during the Hundred Years´ War The revolt, which was violently suppressed after a few weeks of violence, centered in the Oise valley north of Paris This rebellion became known as the Jacquerie because the nobles derided peasants as ´Jacques´ or ´Jacques Bonhomme´ for their padded surplice called ´jacque´ Their revolutionary leader Guillaume Cale was referred to by the aristocratic chronicler Froissart as Jacques Bonhomme ´Jack Goodfellow´ or Callet The word jacquerie became synonymous with peasant uprisings in general in both English and French

Stock Photo: France, History, The Jacquerie was a popular revolt in late medieval Europe by peasants that took place in northern France in the summer of 1358.

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