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3 unusual facts about Étienne Marcel


1358

May 28 – The Jacquerie: A peasant rebellion begins in France during the Hundred Years' War, which consumes the Beauvais and allies with Étienne Marcel's seizure of Paris.

Étienne Marcel

Like Jacob van Artevelde in Flanders, his upbringing in the urban upper class, brought him close to the powerful; he grew up at a time when towns were becoming a political force, especially Paris, which was the largest city in western Europe (its population in about 1328 is estimated at 200,000 people).

As a delegate of the Third Estate, he played an important role in the general assemblies held during the Hundred Years War.


Robert le Coq

He ran great danger at the estates of Compiègne in May 1358, where his dismissal was demanded, and he had to flee to Saint-Denis, where Charles the Bad and Étienne Marcel came to find him.


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