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FEUDALITY (from 887 to 1483) » One Hundred Years old war
French history in 100 tables by Paul Lehugeur

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ORIGINS (of 58 front. J.-C. with 887)

FEUDALITY (from 887 to 1483)

Any power of Feudality

Feudal royalty

Decline of Feudality

One Hundred Years old war

30 - PHILIPPE VI

31 - JEAN - POITIERS

32 - JEAN - GUESCLIN

33 - JEAN - ÉTIENNE MARCEL

34 - CHARLES V, And Du Guesclin.

35 - CHARLES VI & HIS UNCLES

36 - CHARLES VI - AZINCOURT, Armagnacs and Burgundian.

37 - CHARLES VII - ORLEANS

38 - CHARLES VII - JEANNE Of ARC

39 - CHARLES VII - CASTILLON

Ruin Feudality

MONARCHY (of 1483 to 1789)

THE REVOLUTION

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Marcel and the Dolphin.

Étienne Marcel, determined to benefit from the events to lower the royal capacity, was put at the head of 3000 insurgent, and invades the Palate, where lived the Charles dolphin; it penetrated in its room, and summoned it with anger to agree with the States General to put an end to public misfortunes.

The Dolphin having answered with height that it did not have an opinion to receive: "Made this why you came", said Marcel to his men.

At once the insurrectionists ruèrent themselves on the entourage of the Dolphin, and massacred the two marshals of Champagne and Normandy.

The Dolphin had the safe life, but it had its very ensanglantée dress, and was constrained to put on on its head the red hat of blue of Étienne Marcel. (February 1358.)

States General.

The States General were composed of deputies of the nobility, the clergy and the third state; but the noble ones, cut down by their defeats, had lost very ascending on the Parisian ones; they were withdrawn and any more but did not think of fighting; the clergy, directed by Robert Lecoq, bishop of Laon, supported the third state in its complaints; the influence passed thus to people of the trades, and mainly to the clothier Étienne Marcel.

The Dolphin starves Paris.

When the Dolphin had left Paris, the noble ones ran de.toutes.parts to its call, and it was soon with the head of 7000 riders armed with all parts.

It was too little to take the walls by storm, but was enough to starve the city: all the arrivals of the high Seine and the Marne were stopped with the bridge of Charenton by the royal troops, and Paris was not long in suffering from the famine.

Scene of plundering.

Never the peasants were more unhappy only in the medium of the fourteenth century: they suffered at the same time from the war, the plague and the armed robbery: the plunderers of all the countries had met in bands, to plunder overcome France; they seized harvests, the cattle, the attachments, and burned what they could not carry; the peasants who refused to give their money were tortured and massacred.

Jacquerie.

The peasants, or as one called them by derision, the Jacques, raised themselves in all Island-of-France, and turned their fury against the noble ones, to which they allotted all their miseries; they took and burned the castles, made die their prisoners in the torments and saved neither to the women nor the children.

But the noble ones of the close countries met against them, and exterminated them.

After the defeat of Poitiers, the Charles dolphin convenes the States Généraux in 1356 and 1357, to obtain new subsidies, but the deputies of the third state, benefitting from the decline of the nobility, claim a great part in the government.

The provost of the merchants, i.e.

the mayor of Paris, Étienne Marcel, raises the people, seizes the capacity, maltreats the dolphin, then imprudently lets it escape from Paris.

The rabble unchained, and the peasants of the surroundings, pulled by the example, make appalling excesses, but the noble ones take again soon the top; the peasants, in spite of the helps which they receive from Parisian, are massacred per thousands, of the whole cantons are depopulated.

At the same time Étienne Marcel, which wants opened the doors of Paris with Charles the Bad one, to do it king, is killed by the Parisian ones, and the dolphin, who joined together an army, returns in Paris without resistance (1358).

Edouard, with whom it dolphin refuses to give up half of France, unloads again in Calais, crosses Picardy and the Champagne (1360), and threatens Paris; finally, despairing to attract the French out of their places of war, it still offers to the dolphin very hard conditions, but that exhausted France accepts with joy; by the treaty of Brétigny (1360), Guyenne, the Limousin, Saintonge, the Angoumois, Poitou and the town of Calais are yielded to England; king Jean covers freedom.

Marcel and the Dolphin.

States General.

The Dolphin starves Paris.

Scene of plundering.

Jacquerie.

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