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THE See also:JACQUERIE
, an insurrection of the See also:French peasantry which See also:broke out in the Ile de See also:France and about See also:Beauvais at the end of May 1358
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The hardships endured by the peasants in the See also:Hundred Years' See also:War and their hatred for the nobles who oppressed them were the See also:principal causes which led to the rising, though the immediate occasion was an See also:affray which took See also:place on the 28th of May at the See also:village of See also:Saint-Leu between " brigands " (See also:militia See also:infantry armoured in brigandines) and See also:country-folk
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The latter having got the upper See also:hand See also:united with the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages and placed See also:Guillaume Karle at their See also:head
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They destroyed numerous chateaux in the valleys of the See also:Oise, the Breche and the Therain, where they subjected the whole countryside to See also:fire and See also:sword, committing the most terrible atrocities
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