In The Arts
The contemporary literary chronicles were influenced by other medieval genres: romance, satire, and complaint. The subject of the Jacquerie engaged the Romantic historical imagination, resulting in numerous nineteenth-century historical novels with somewhat operatic plots set against the backdrop of the Jacquerie—The Jacquerie, or, The Lady and the Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R James (1842) and the like— and even an opera, by Alberto Donaudy.
In more modern literature, the 1961 novel A Walk with Love and Death by Hans Koningsberger takes place in France during the Jacquerie.
Nostradamus references the Jacquerie in Quatrain X:72: In the year 1999 and seven months / From the skies shall come an alarmingly powerful king / to rise again the great kings of the Jacquerie / Before and after, Mars shall reign at will.
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