Grand Ferré (c. 1330-1359) was a French peasant from Rivecourt in the region of Picardy who took part in the Hundred Years War.
Grand Ferré or the Great Ferrier (a blacksmith) was a peasant of large stature who distinguished himself alongside another peasant, Guillaume aux Alouettes who had been nominated as local captain during the Jacquerie of Beauvais, an uprising in May 1358, that started against local nobles but then turned on the invading English as well.
The chronicler Jean de Venette stated that Guillaume was mortally wounded when the English attacked the castle and Grande Ferré then single-handedly killed eighty-five opponents with an ax.
[4] A statue in honour of the Grand Ferré, by the sculptor Félix Martin, was erected in 1889 on the main square (now named Charles-de-Gaulle) of Longueil-Sainte-Marie (Oise).
In 2018, the journalist Éric Zemmour devoted a full chapter of his book, Destin Francais, to Grand Ferré, in his search for a national hero and took up a historiographical construction that dates from the 19th century.