CAILLF:T, GUILLAUME, a French peasant, was the leader of the ineurrection calla! the Jacquerie, which broke out in France in 1358. Cellist was a native of Mello, a small place in the Beauvoisin, a district so named from the city of Beauvais, in the old province of Isle-de Emu., adjoining Picardie. At this time the French king Jean II. was a i risoner in England, having been taken at the battle of Poictiers in 1356. The insurrectionists consisted almost entirely of peasantry, and their leader Carnet received or assumed the name of Jacques Bon herniae (James Goorhhian), which was applied in contempt to the lower dart*, and hence the persons enraged in this outbreak were called Jacques, and the insurrection itself La Jacquerie. The rising of the peasants commenced, according to tho ‘Chroniques de France,' on the 21st of May 1353, and was of a very ferocious character. It is stated by the wr.ters of the time, Erolseart and others, to have been caused ti the oppreosions of the feudal lords and landed gentry, which, always severe, hail increased (hiring the disturbed period of the king's captivity till they had become intolerable. The lawless bands were at first few
in r umber, and were armed only with knives and with sticks shod with Iron. but they rapidly Increased, and ultimately extended throughout Picardie and into the neighbouring provinces, and are said to have amounted to 100.000. Their object was, u they openly professed, to destroy the whole race of the feudal nobility and gentry as beings who ought to be no longer suffered to exist. The lessons forced their way into the elution and houses, plundered and then burnt them, and not only ineasscrei the inhabitants of both sexes and every age, but !allotted enmities not fit to be described. At length, about the end of the same year 1351, the Ineurrectionista were opposed and overcome by the combined forum of the lords of l'ioardie, Brabant, and Flanders, having the Dauphin of Francs, afterwards Charles V., at their head. Collies himself was taken prisoner 1 y the king of Navarre, and was beheaded in 1359.