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 Translation for 'peasant revolt' from English to French
NOUN   a peasant revolt | peasant revolts
hist.pol.sociol.
jacquerie {f}
peasant revolt
Partial Matches
croquant {m} [vieilli] [paysan pauvre]poor peasant
paysan {m} [péj.]peasant [pej.]
sociol.
de souche paysanne {adj}
of peasant stock
paysanne {f} [péj.]peasant [female] [pej.]
pol.
fronde {f} [révolte]
revolt
pol.
putsch {m}
revolt
pol.
révolte {f} [putsch]
revolt
pol.
coup {m} d'État
revolt
ulcérer qn. [propos, comportement]to revolt sb.
géogr.hist.pol.
révolte {f} de Mokrani [1871] [aussi : insurrection de 1871]
Mokrani Revolt [1871]
incitation {f} à la revolteincitement to revolt
mil.pol.
mater une révolte
to crush a revolt
ethn.hist.mil.
première guerre {f} d'indépendance indienne [1857]
Revolt of 1857
pol.
se soulever
to rise in revolt
ethn.hist.mil.
révolte {f} des cipayes [1857]
Revolt of 1857
cuis.
omelette {f} paysanne
peasant's omelette [potato & bacon omelette]
s'insurger contre qn./qc.to revolt against sb./sth.
se révolter contre qn./qc.to revolt against sb./sth.
pol.
se soulever contre qn./qc.
to revolt against sb./sth.
inciter la foule à la revolteto incite a crowd to revolt
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Usage Examples English
  • In 1879 he had his first success at the Paris Salon, with a history painting entitled "The Burnt Village - a scene from the Finnish peasant revolt of 1596".
  • No organized help from any Russian army seems available to the Bolkonskys, but Nikolai Rostov turns up at their estate in time to help put down an incipient peasant revolt.
  • A similar dust was used in China to quell an armed peasant revolt in 178 AD, when "lime chariots" equipped with bellows blew limestone powder into the crowds.
  • Ukraine emerges as the concept of a nation, and the Ukrainians as a nationality, with the Ukrainian National Revival in the mid-18th century, in the wake of the peasant revolt of 1768/1769 and the eventual partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • In the 1960s, anthropologists and historians began to rethink the role of peasant revolt in world history and in their own disciplines.

  • His presidency, which lasted from 15 November 1894 until 14 November 1898, was marked by the War of Canudos, a peasant revolt in the northeast of the country that was crushed by the Brazilian Army.
  • Historian Richard Wunderli in his book "Peasant Fires" provides a detailed study of Böhm and the Niklashausen peasant revolt of 1476 and the abstruse peasant mentality.
  • Nils Dacke (died 1543) was a Swedish yeoman who was the leader of a mid-16th century peasant revolt in the historic province of Småland in southern Sweden.
  • Meanwhile, in the parallel civil war for the Crown in Tarnovo Skopje boyar and grandson to Stefan Nemanja Constantine Tikh gained the upper hand and ruled until Europe's only successful peasant revolt the Uprising of Ivaylo deposed him.
  • In Cochinchina the Party in 1940 obliged, triggering a disastrous peasant revolt.

  • Fear of the peasant revolt was a contributing factor to the abolition of seignorialism in France through the August Decrees.
  • In 1277, swineherd Ivaylo led a great peasant revolt that expelled the Mongols from Bulgaria and briefly made him emperor.
  • In 1713 it was the centre of a peasant revolt against increased taxation and the local Count Coronini.
  • The Galician peasant revolt took place in the region during the revolutions of 1848.
  • In April 1894, the Korean government asked for Chinese assistance in ending the Donghak Peasant Revolt.

  • The Joseon considered Jeonju their ancestral home (an ancestor of Yi Seonggye of Joseon may have fled Jeonju after the 1182 peasant revolt).
  • The Donghak Peasant Revolution of 1894-95 began in Jeollado, which was a peasant revolt fueled by the fervor of a coming local "messiah" and protests over Seoul's high taxes on rice and increasing number of Japanese traders in Joseon.
  • As a fortification, it suffered and successfully resisted two sieges during the Middle Ages; the first of them in 1343, during Peter IV of Aragon's campaign to reincorporate the Majorcan territories to the Crown of Aragon, and then again in 1391 during an anti-semitic peasant revolt.
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