Jacques Bonhomme

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[zhahk baw-nawm] / ʒɑk bɔˈnɔm /

noun

1. the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.

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Etymology

Origin of Jacques Bonhomme

< French: literally, James goodfellow; see jack ⁴

Example Sentences

Madame Sand notes, and with a kind of envy, the stolid patience and industry, the inextinguishable confidence, of poor old Jacques Bonhomme when things are at the worst.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha

"And on top of all, oppressed and persecuted, Jacques Bonhomme has had to pay the ransom for the cowardly seigneurs with gilded spurs!"

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

The man in armour despised Jacques Bonhomme, as he called him.

From Stained Glass Tours in France by Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock

They may rear up a Jack Cade, a Wat Tyler, or a Jacques Bonhomme, but they will never produce a Robespierre or a Cromwell.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

Jacques Bonhomme was held by them in utter contempt, and the peasant garrison simply brought to their notice the advantage of the place as a well-fortified centre of operations.

From Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. by Morris, Charles