When the peasants of the 14th century invented the jacquerie. From the Jacquerie of 1358 to the ‘yellow vest’ movement, the current peasant revolt seems to renew the numerous episodes of revolts which have punctuated the history of France.
The connection of events across the centuries is ambiguous; it is both essential, to make the course of time legible, and perilous, exposed to the seductive and fallacious misinterpretations of anachronism. Historians, no more than others, have never predicted the future.