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jacquerie
Place de la Concorde
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jacquerie

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a violet uprising by the proles


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All was quiet. It was true that people did not pay their rent, but that was all. I should waste my time, and so forth. But no sooner had I set foot in Ennis than I found that the jacquerie which broke out in Mayo and Galway had reached county Clare, and that at least one gentleman living close to the principal town is at war with his tenants and the country side.

Bernard H. Becker. Disturbed Ireland (1881)
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The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word Jacquerie in a bad sense. The Jacques were the poor.

Victor Hugo. Les Misérables
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