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The Tuchin revolt (in French, the tuchinat) was a
tax revolt of "workers and artisans" in
Southern France between 1378 and 1384.[1]
In 1378, the town council of
Le Puy imposed an indirect tax on consumption at a flat rate in order to subsidise the
war with England. According to a letter written after the revolt, when the tax was announced the people cried, "O blessed Virgin Mary help us! How shall we live, how shall we be able to feed our children, since we cannot support the heavy taxes established to our own prejudice through the influence of the rich to reduce their own taxes?"[1]
During the Montpelier riot of 1380, according to one account, rioters "quarters the bodies of King's officers with knives and ate the baptized flesh ... or threw it to the beasts".[2]
The revolt spread west as people objected to heavy taxes to pay for the king's war. In September 1381, in response to unfair assessments for direct taxes, the workers of
Béziers rebelled. A crowd stormed the town hall and lit the tower on fire, burning several councillors alive and forcing others to jump to their deaths. The
Duke of Berry intervened quickly at Béziers, ordering forty-one rebels executed by hanging and four more beheaded in the town square as an example.[1]
The Tuchins were eventually suppressed by the Duke of Berry in 1384.[1]
Notes
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abcdJames R. Farr, Artisans in Europe, 1300–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 172.
^Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, The Peasants of Languedoc (University of Illinois Press, 1976), p. 197.
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Charbonnier, Pierre (1990). "Qui furent les Tuchins?". Violence et contestation au Moyen Âge: Actes du 114e Congrès national des sociétés savantes, Paris, 1989, Section d'histoire médiévale et de philologie. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. pp. 235–47.
Stouff, Louis (1990). "Une ville de France entre Charles de Duras et les Angevins: l'entrée des Tuchins dans Arles le 24 juillet 1384". 1388: La dédition de Nice à la Savoie. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. pp. 144–57.