1628 Gerard Mercator & Henricus Hondius antica mappa la regione Piccardia di Francia
In 1477, King Louis XI of France led an army and occupied key towns in Picardy. During the Hundred Years\\\' War, Picardy was the centre of the Jacquerie peasant revolt in 1358. (Ref: Koeman; M&B; Tooley).