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  Jacquerie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jacquerie was a popular revolt in late medieval Europe that took place in northern France in 1358, during the Hundred Years' War.
The Jacquerie must be seen in the context of this period of internal instability.
The word "Jacquerie" later became a synonym for French peasant uprisings, and for centuries the nobility lived in fear of a repeat performance, and reacted ruthlessly to any future outbreaks.
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 Peasant Mobililization in South India, 1836-1956 - Ron Herring
As importantly, the futile jacqueries of the Muslim population, and the proto-political rebellion of 1921, sensitized the state to the necessity of responding to agrarian distress.
The subsequent progression of the Malabar peasantry's organizational and programmatic struggle from jacquerie to electoral power is encapsulated in the transition of titles of the first newspaper of the movement founded in the 1920s: Kudiyan, meaning "tenant," gave way to Krishikaran, meaning "farmer" or "agriculturalist," launched in 1952.
Jacquerie connotes spontaneous combustion of peasant anger, derived from the uprisings which began in Beauvais, north of Paris, in 1358.
www.virginia.edu /soasia/symsem/kisan/papers/mobil.html   (14729 words)

  
 G. A. Henty : Saint George for England : Chapter XXI: The Jacquerie
On the evening after the battle of Poitiers a splendid entertainment was served in the tent of the Prince of Wales to the King of France and all the principal prisoners.
The Jacquerie was considered as a common danger in all civilized countries; for if successful it might have spread far beyond the boundaries of France, and constituted a danger to chivalry, and indeed to society universally.
Thus King Edward gave the highest marks of his satisfaction to the Captal and Walter, added considerable grants of land to the estates of the latter, and raised him to the dignity of Baron Somers of Westerham.
www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.1505/sec.22   (4008 words)

  
 Jacquerie: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Jacquerie was a popular revolt in late medieval Europe[For more, click on this link] that took place in northern France France quick summary:
The french republic or france (: république française or france) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western europe, and...
These rebellions were known as the Jacquerie after the peasant revolutionary popularly known as Jacques Bonhomme, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jacquerie.htm   (771 words)

  
 Jacquerie -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
These rebellions were known as the Jacquerie after the peasant revolutionary Guillaume Caillet, popularly known as Jacques Bonhomme ("Simple Jack") or Callet.
Caillet, who was the leader of the rebellion, was captured by the French nobles and tortured to death by use of red-hot irons.
The word "Jacquerie" became a synonym for peasant uprisings, and for centuries the nobility lived in fear of a repeat performance.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Jacquerie   (481 words)

  
 C'est la Guerre - Parade Ground - les Jacquerie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
They are fairly cheap, can be good at storming a given terrain feature, and provide a convenient set of fortifications to secure one flank of your army.
The actual Jacquerie movement seems to have not lasted more then several weeks from May 21, 1358 when it started until June 9th and 10th when they were defeated decisively at Meaux and Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, so I’m not even sure why the list allows you to run them from 1356 until 1360.
I gave them flags of red and blue since the uprising in Paris led by Etienne Marcel reportedly had banners of those colors and the Parisiens gave the Jacks aid during their ephemeral existence.
www.sonic.net /~fatdogs/dbm/army/full_frame/a/ra_jacquerie.html   (288 words)

  
 Jacquerie #1: The Jacquerie, The Antichrist, and possibly A Commentary on Society as a Whole [at moon rocket ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jacquerie #1: The Jacquerie, The Antichrist, and possibly A Commentary on Society as a Whole [at moon rocket distribution]
Jacquerie #1: The Jacquerie, The Antichrist, and possibly A Commentary on Society as a Whole
The Jacquerie has, unlike 99.99% of self-published books and zines, stood the test of time--I would recommend it to anyone with a sarcastic and possibly cynical outlook on socio-political-religious philosophy.
www.moonrocket.co.nz /catalogue/zine.html?ID=144   (238 words)

  
 Jean Froissart on the "Jacquerie" (1358)
Not long after the King of Navarre had been set free, there were very strange and terrible happenings in several parts of the kingdom of France.
They learnt in that city that the Duchess of Normandy and the Duchess of Orleans and at least three hundred other ladies and their daughters, as well as the Duke of Orleans, were waiting acts Meaux in a state of great anxiety because of the Jacquerie.
The two gallons knights decided to visit the ladies and take them whenever support they could, although the Captal de Buch was English.
www.historyguide.org /ancient/jacquerie.html   (2003 words)

  
 HOASM: The Bourgeois Rising and the Jacquerie (1358)
Be that as it may, the disintegration started with the loss of the King, with those who could of the French forces flying for the gates of Poitiers to escape capture.
Against this background, an act of the Dauphin precipitated the uprising of the peasantry called the Jacquerie.
They learnt in that city that the Duchess of Normandy and the Duchess of Orléans and at least three hundred other ladies and their daughters, as well as the Duke of Orléans, were waiting at Meaux in a state of great anxiety because of the Jacquerie.
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 Jacquerie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Insurrection of peasants against the nobility in northeastern France in 1358 - so named from the nobles' habit of referring contemptuously to any peasant as Jacques, or Jacques Bonhomme.
The Jacquerie occurred at a critical moment of the Hundred Years' War.
The Battle of Poitiers (September 1356), in which King John II the Good was captured by the English, was the latest in a series of defeats that had brought discredit on the French nobility.
www.wga.hu /tours/gothic/history/jacqerie.html   (220 words)

  
 Global Psychics: Prophecy for the New Age. Nostradamus Predictions for July 1999 and the transformation to the Next ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The "King of the Jacquerie" refers to Guillaume Karle {c.1358}, a leader of a peasant revolt, which was marked by violence and destruction.
In your analysis of The Ominous Quatrain, you write that "[t]he 'King of the Jacquerie' refers to Guillaume Karle {c.1358}, a leader of a peasant revolt, which was marked by violence and destruction.
[3]: "of the Jacquerie", the peasents, the masses, the weak, the poor.
www.globalpsychics.com /lp/prophecy/july99.htm   (2346 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: Jean Froissart: on the Jacquerie, 1358   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Medieval Sourcebook: Jean Froissart: on the Jacquerie, 1358
The period following the Black Death saw a number of political and social upheavals, caused by the disease itself, as well as wars and other insecurities.
That in France in 1358 was known as the Jacquerie - since a common name for a peasant was a "Jacques".
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/froissart2.html   (374 words)

  
 JACQUERIE - LoveToKnow Article on JACQUERIE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Charles the Bad, king of Navarre, crushed the rebellion at the battle of Mello on the 10th of June, and the nobles then took violent reprisals upon the peasants, massacring them in great numbers.
See Simeon Luce, Histoire de la Jacquerie (Paris, 1859 and 1895).
To properly cite this JACQUERIE article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
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 Glossary: Economy
Frustrated by plague, famine and mercenaries, the peasants of northern France rebelled in 1358.
As violent as the Jacquerie was reported to be, the revolt was quashed by the aristocracy with greater savagery.
One repercussion of the Jacquerie was the return of royalist ideals that were being threatened by constitutional movements in the Estates General.
www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/glossary/econgloss.html   (768 words)

  
 Jacquerie - Search Results - MSN Encarta
In the end, however, the peasants were not able to retain most of their gains from the higher price of labor.
Much of their gains went to the state,...
Rebellion : France: Jacquerie – Charles V (of France)
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 village voice > books > by Robert Christgau
May 23rd, 2003 2:00 PM Mortals, c’est moi: novelist Norman Rush knows jacquerie.
The marriages are alive because the writing is. But it's not palmy to conclude that Rush's political concerns nourish his commitment to sustainable romance.
Well before the jacquerie, Morel and Kerekang enter a spectacularly well-informed argument about the uses of Christianity that makes the erudition of Rushdie or Franzen seem show-off frippery by comparison.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0322/christgau.php   (1131 words)

  
 JACQUERIE, THE - Online Information article about JACQUERIE, THE
Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
JACQUERIE, THE, an insurrection of the See also:
Simeon Luce, Histoire de la Jacquerie (See also:
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 Blake's 7 - Angelfood
Angelfood is in memory of fan writer and editor Pat Jacquerie, who would have done an Avon/Tarrant zine herself if illness hadn't intervened.
She chose the title, Angelfood--which is gay slang for a pilot--because it tied in nicely with Tarrant's vocation.
Epilogue to the epilogue to "Blood and Shadows" by Pat Jacquerie.
www.hermit.org /b7/Fanzines/Maverick/Angelfood.html   (2320 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: La Jacquerie: scènes féodales, suivies de La Famille de Carvajal, drame [The Jacquerie, feudal ...
Literary Encyclopedia: La Jacquerie: scènes féodales, suivies de La Famille de Carvajal, drame [The Jacquerie, feudal scenes, followed by The Carvajal Family, drama]
La Jacquerie: scènes féodales, suivies de La Famille de Carvajal, drame [The Jacquerie, feudal scenes, followed by The Carvajal Family, drama]
Search the web for 'La Jacquerie: scènes féodales, suivies de La Famille de Carvajal, drame [The Jacquerie, feudal scenes, followed by The Carvajal Family, drama]'
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 Mike's History p 106 - The Jacquerie. French peasant rebellion. Froissart, selections.
(The Jacquerie was the name given to a a great French peasant rebellion in 1358.
Thus they gathered together without any other counsel, and without any armor saving with staves and knives, and so went to the house of a knight dwelling nearby and broke up his house and slew the knight and the lady and all his children great and small and brent [burnt] his house.
they chose him that was the most ungracious of all others and they called him King Jacques Goodman [Bonhomme], and so thereby they were called companions of the Jacquerie....
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 Lecture 30: In the Wake of the Black Death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 1358, French peasants took up arms in protest against the plundering of the countryside by French soldiers during the 100 Years' War.
Perhaps 20,000 peasants died in this uprising known as the JACQUERIE.
The most spectacular of all the 14th century peasants was the English Peasants' War.
www.historyguide.org /ancient/lecture30b.html   (3109 words)

  
 A bad sign for voters (barf alert)
Jacquerie writes: "Q: When does an affadavit constitute proof of identify?
Not only that, but as I understand it, the complaints about disenfranchised voters came out of 'rat-controlled precincts during the 2000 election.
When I went to my polling place in LA at the last election, there were two booths for Republicans, one for Independents, and four for Democrats.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1176652/posts   (1098 words)

  
 Blake's 7 - Straight Blake's #3
And as I recall, Pat Jacquerie's "Negotiating Positions" (possibly my favorite story in this issue, although it's hard to decide), although written for a round robin elsewhere, was also previewed there before it went into the zine.
In "Negotiating Positions," author/editor Pat Jacquerie decided not to alter the story but to present it in its original form, from a never-to-be- finished round robin.
I'm glad that she decided to do it that way, because the side comments are wonderful.
www.hermit.org /Blakes7/Fanzines/Reviews3/SBlake3.html   (3147 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Emperor of the Cossacks : Pugachev and the frontier jacquerie of 1773-1775
Emperor of the Cossacks : Pugachev and the frontier jacquerie of 1773-1775
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 C'est la Guerre - Parade Ground - Jacquerie camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
C'est la Guerre - Parade Ground - Jacquerie camp
Ah, an idyllic scene in the Jacquerie camp.
Although the angle isn’t the best to show it, that is a fl sheep at the end of the column.
www.sonic.net /~fatdogs/dbm/army/main/a/ma_camp.html   (37 words)

  
 Eidelberg (1974) The great Rumanian peasant revolt of 1907: Origins of a modern jacquerie
Eidelberg (1974) The great Rumanian peasant revolt of 1907: Origins of a modern jacquerie
The great Rumanian peasant revolt of 1907: Origins of a modern jacquerie
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 Jacquerie - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Jacquerie - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK or LOGIN
Jacquerie [Fr.,=collection of Jacques, which is, like Jacques Bonhomme, a nickname for the French peasant], 1358, revolt of the French peasantry.
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