684: Jacquerie Oct 24, 2016

A good way of dismissing some person or idea is to trivialize it. There have been, in the whole of France's history, a number of revolts, revolutions, and uprisings, but not all of them were as significant as the others. The first jacquerie, however, to be called such was in in the 1350's when the peasants revolted against the nobility who had mockingly nicknamed peasants, 'Jacques' or 'Jacques Bonhomme'. For about a century and a half, this word was not used to describe other revolts, but eventually superseded the other usage, which is still employed on occasion, such as in Dicken's Tale of Two Cities.

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