More than one jacquerie has been delayed, if not averted, by the "Roman de Renart.". From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Hidalgo's peasant army, in the tradition of the jacquerie of 14th century France, settled scores against the ruling elite with vengeful brutality. From Wordnik.com. [Miguel Hidalgo: the Father who fathered a country (1753–1811)] Reference
As for the ID-card plan, my strong advice to the incoming Prime Minister is to can it before he faces a jacquerie of protesters objecting to the cost to the taxpayer and themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Boris socks it to the Puritans] Reference
From the slums of the towns the jacquerie has spread into the rural districts. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
In ten of the departments the seventh jacquerie continues the sixth without a break. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 2] Reference
This piece of human jacquerie chattered incessantly over the success of his schemes. From Wordnik.com. [The Rival Administrations: Richmond and Washington in December, 1863.] Reference
The jacquerie subsides, and it seems as if the newly restored order would be maintained. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
Such being the argument, the jacquerie breaks out afresh: in truth, it is permanent and universal. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
This department is one of those in which the seventh jacquerie is merely a prolongation of the sixth. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 2] Reference
It will burst a second time in the same places; in 1791 as in 1790, the jacquerie spreads throughout Brittany as it has spread over Limousin. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
For three years these strong-armed prowlers have served as the hard-core of local jacqueries; at the present time they form the staff of the universal jacquerie. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 2] Reference
"In light of inadequate social safety nets and the probability of further economic turndowns, the regime's fear of an anti-government jacquerie is not far-fetched.". From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
A few months later the Assembly will oblige the King to declare that the proceedings begun against the jacquerie of Brittany shall be regarded as null and void, and that the arrested insurgents shall be set free. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
The first jacquerie was an 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.". From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
The seventh jacquerie is drawing near, this one universal and final -- at first brutal, and then legal and systematic, undertaken and carried out on the strength of abstract principles by leaders worthy of the means they employ. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
He had much of the frantic levelism and jacquerie of his age and land, and could probably not have explained to himself all the changes he desired to effect; but, coupled with his hatred to the nobles, his deep and passionate sympathy with the poor, his heated and fanatical chimeras of. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
Any expedient is good enough for putting down their opposition, and, at the end of the session, in full Assembly, they are threatened with "a recommendation to the departments," which means the excitement of riots and of the permanent jacquerie of the provinces against them in their own houses. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
The third and fourth jacquerie. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
The first jacquerie in Province. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
But here also a jacquerie awaits them. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
The fifth jacquerie. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
The sixth jacquerie. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
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