13th–14th centuries
Anti-fiscal riots turning into pogrom
1380·Paris
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The death of Charles V and the abolition of taxes he had promised opened, in Paris, a season of riots against tax collectors. The crowd also turned on the Jewish quarter, which the Crown had recalled and protected for its finances.
The houses were pillaged, the debt registers destroyed, members of the community killed, children seized and baptized. The king's minor uncles had some of the property returned and ordered that the children be restored to their parents — a decision that clashed with the canonical principle of the irrevocability of baptism and was poorly obeyed.
Two years later, the same fiscal anger would resurface with the Maillotins, and the quarter would be ransacked again.
- Period :
- 13th–14th centuries
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
*Chronique du Religieux de Saint-Denis* ; Jean Froissart ; ordonnances royales.