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Definition of Jacquerie
1. n. The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants.
Definition of Jacquerie
1. Noun. A violent revolt by peasants. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jacquerie
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacquerie
Literary usage of Jacquerie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in Europe: A History by Thomas Erskine May (1877)
"The jacquerie was repressed with merciless severity :4 but the spirit of vengeance
long ... Before the outrages of the jacquerie, isse-im Stephen Marcel, ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"jacquerie, a French servile insurrection of the 14th century, called after its
leader, Guil- laume Caillet, or Charlet, of Clermont, who assumed the name ..."
3. American Poets and Their Theology by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1916)
"The jacquerie," the longest of his poems, is also one of his earliest. Its subject
is the uprising of the ... The jacquerie " always remained " A Fragment. ..."
4. ... The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine, John Durand (1878)
"The fifth jacquerie.—Burgundy and Lyonnais in 1791. ... The sixth jacquerie.—Its
two causes.—Isolated outbreaks in the north, east, and west. ..."
5. Principles of Social Economics, Inductively Considered and Practically by George Gunton (1891)
"If we compare the Insurrection in England with the jacquerie in France, twenty-three
... There was one important difference, however : the jacquerie and the ..."
6. Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo, George Burnham Ives (1909)
"IV THE jacquerie MEANWHILE, after the 2nd of December, the crime being ...
The coup d'etat began to shriek about the jacquerie, like the assassin who cried: ..."
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