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Definition of Jacqueries
1. jacquerie [n] - See also: jacquerie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacqueries
Literary usage of Jacqueries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. ... The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine, John Durand (1878)
"Preparations for other jacqueries. I. (HOWEVER bad a particular government maybe,
there is something stm worse, and that is the suppression of all ..."
2. The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine (1885)
"—jacqueries, effective confiscations and proclamation of ihe socialistic creed.
—Indirect attacks.—Bad administration of the public funds. ..."
3. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. It is this peril, possibly imminent
towards the close of the eighteenth century, which the French Revolution, ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Taine has calculated that from July 1789 until the dissolution of the constituent
assembly no less than five jacqueries, involving the eruption of several ..."
5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"Brought about pacifically, without the aid of jacqueries and popular uprisings
the reform was effected with the consent of all parties interested, ..."
6. Forty Years of Diplomacy by Roman Romanovich Rosen (1922)
"It had led to " jacqueries," murders, burnings of country mansions, ...
Russia's Ruin: We have seen since then what both the jacqueries and the Soviet ..."
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