USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Great Fear, French Grande Peur, (1789) in the French Revolution, a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Great Fear Sweeps France Before long, rebellion spread from Paris into the countryside. From one village to the next, wild rumors circulated that the nobles were hiring outlaws to terrorize the peasants. A wave of senseless panic called the Great Fear rolled through France.

Detailed explanation-3: -Definition. The Great Fear (French: la Grande Peur) was a wave of panic that swept the French countryside in late July and early August 1789. Fearful of plots by aristocrats to undermine the budding French Revolution (1789-1799), peasants and townspeople mobilized, attacking manorial houses.

Detailed explanation-4: -Caught in a frenzy of fear, peasants in several districts seized hoes and pitchforks and attacked chateaux. They looted hoarded grain and burnt down documents containing records of manorial dues. A large number of nobles fled from their homes, many of them migrating to neighbouring countries.

Detailed explanation-5: -Jacquerie, insurrection of peasants against the nobility in northeastern France in 1358-so named from the nobles’ habit of referring contemptuously to any peasant as Jacques, or Jacques Bonhomme. The Jacquerie occurred at a critical moment of the Hundred Years’ War.