Jacquerie, zha kre', INSURRECTION OF THE, the name given to the rising of the French peasantry against their lords in the middle of the fourteenth century, after the Battle of Poitiers. They committed every atrocity, particularly in the northeast of France. They were at length quelled and the nobles retaliated by enormities as great as those which the peasants had practiced earlier. The term Jacquerie is derived from Jacques Bonhomme, a familiar epithet for a peasant.