Crossword-Solution: JACQUERIE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jacquerie | 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. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “JACQUERIE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FRENCH peasant revolt (1358) | 1 answer |
| PEASANTRY, rising of | 1 answer |
| PEASANTS rising against the nobles | 1 answer |
| REVOLT of peasantry against nobles | 1 answer |
| Revolt of French peasants, 1358. | 1 answer |
| peasant rising or revolt | 1 answer |
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Sentences with JACQUERIE (5)
Look around and consider the lives of all the world that we know, consider the faces of all the world that we know, consider the rage and discontent to which the Jacquerie addresses itself with more and more of certainty every hour.
The state of France encouraged England to propose harder terms to that country, where the people rose against the unspeakable cruelty and barbarity of its nobles; where the nobles rose in turn against the people; where the most frightful outrages were committed on all sides; and where the insurrection of the peasants, called the insurrection of the Jacquerie, from Jacques, a common Christian name among the country people of France, awakened terrors and hatreds that have scarcely yet passed away.
They still piled the brushwood round the base of the tower, and gambolled hand in hand around the blaze, screaming out the doggerel lines which had long been the watchword of the Jacquerie: Cessez, cessez, gens d'armes et pietons, De piller et manger le bonhomme Qui de longtemps Jacques Bonhomme Se nomme.
But to see women killed and pass by--it was horrible! So horrible that if in those moments I had had the wishing-cap, I would have asked but for five thousand riders, and leave to charge with them through the streets of Paris! I would have had the days of the Jacquerie back again, and my men-at-arms behind me! For ourselves, though the orgy was at its height when we passed, we were not molested.
Mac Quedy_.—Do you not see that you have brought disparates together? the Jacquerie and the march of mind.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1967).