Large Rebeyne

Large Rebeyne ( rebeyne as Lyonese meaning " émeute") is a revolt of the Faim which took place with Lyon 18 with the April 27th 1529.

Causes

Large Rebeyne was started because of the too high price of corn, which had with the speculation of the merchants, and because of too strong impositions.

It is one period when the rich person families of merchants originating in Florence, Lucques, Milan and Genoa are made build the most beautiful houses of the city. But for a few years harvests have been bad. The winter 1528 -1529 will have been particularly rigorous. Contrast between the display of the richnesses on the one hand and the difficulty of the life of poorest is perhaps the cause of this riot.

Unfoldings

April 18th of the posters the walls of the city cover: signed " Pôvre" , they invite to gather on Sunday, April 25 in Cordeliers in order to go to seek corn in the attic of the rich person. Sunday afternoon nearly two miles people meet in the cloister of the Cordeliers. The alarm bell sounds with Saint-Nizier. One starts to excavate middle-class houses. The Monday the 27th the abbey of Island-Bores is invested. The revolt dies out itself the 27.

The advisers and the notable ones of the Consulat take refuge near the canons of Primatiale Midsummer's Day.

Consequences

Repression is hard. Certain rioters are hung, other envoys with the galères.

Documents

Affiche which initiated the riots:

" Makes some assavoir with all common people of the town of Lyon,

Firstly with all those which have desire to soustenir the public property, to be repugnant to the mischievousness and furies of the false usurers, likes you to have glance as the detriment of corn falls to us known without to have deserved it, because of their attics full of corn, which they want to sell with their last word, which is not of reason;

And if God does not put the hand at it, there will be necessary to throw some in water so much is, and thus, considering the grace God and the good provision of time and that it is not made null corn clusters for the war, and moreover that justice supports with governors people and advisers, usurers and small drainage canals, to put order at it;

Pretending to use dignity, they corrode us day in day, as by truth see it in front of your eyes occurring the dearness of known as corn and other food products, which is cheap and infamous thing; by what the other good city following the example of, which all the commune is deliberated to put at it good order, such as in fact with corn before it is removed straw, it is that it is beaten and escoux;

It is necessary for us to make thus with these cursed usurers and those which have attics and raise corn. Will know that we are from four to five hundred men, that we are allied;

Let us inform all theknown as ones that they have to be Sunday, afternoon, in Cordeliers, to give council with us to put at it order and police force, and this without fault, for the utility and profit of poor commune of this town of Lyon and me.

Pôvre"

Comment of Symphorien Champier, point of view of the notable ones:

This year millet five hundred and twenties and nine, the corn was rather haughty price, the bichet of the price of twenty-five grounds, how much that of our time, it was expensive of fifteen grounds for bichet, of the time of king Louis eleventh, approximately the year 1481; and still since approximately the year millet five hundreds and four, were sold twenty-six corn grounds and if the people of hunger by the streets died.

And notwithstanding icelle famine, the people of Lyon was peaceful, without murmuration none. But, since the arrival of this false sect, lately not found, but renewed these cursed Vaudois and Chaignarts coming from North, unde omne malum and inquitas the people took a rise and mischievousness in him, which wants to be corrected neither of Master, neither of lord, nor of prince, if it is not by force. And the servants want to be as well treated as the Masters; and with the place that of our time the servants were humble to the Masters and were sober, and pared force water with the wine, and the vine growers were satisfied with the beverage which with the grape harvest, is made with water put inside marc after the wine is drawn from top the aforementioned marc.

But, of present, wants to drink better wine, like the Masters, without water nor compounding no, which is thing against any reason, because God wants that there is difference between the Master and the servant, and Saint-Pierre orders it the apostle in his epistle: to be obeying its Master and to believe his command, otherwise the world would be without order, and the ground goods would remain without cultivating and plowing (...)

Source

article on the site Rebellyon

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