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Jacquerie
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jacquerie
1523, from M.Fr., from O.Fr. jaquerie "peasants or villeins collectively," from Jacques, the proper name, which is used as Jack is used in Eng., in the sense of "any common fellow." So, also, "the rising of the northern Fr. peasants against the nobles, 1357-8."
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Jacquerie
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
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