Jacques One, Two and Three

Friends of Monsieur Defarge, Jacques One, Two and Three are members of the Jacquerie, the revolutionaries of the French Revolution.

The name Jacques or Jacques Bonhomme to designate a peasant was [in the 14th century] as a term of derision derived from padded surplice called jacque which the peasant wore for protective armor in war.A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, By Barbara W Tuchman