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Popular Response to Standing Military Forces in Fifteenth-Century France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2019

Paul D. Solon
Paul D. Solon*
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Macalester College
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At the beginning of 1445 the kingdom of France lay in ruins after a century of warfare. Yet in the spring of that year a reform began which ultimately brought military victory to the house of Valois and restored peace and effective political direction to the lands of the French monarchy. Charles VII, acting with the support of many elements of French society, created the famed Compagnies d'ordonnance which proved instrumental in ending the chaos which had threatened the destruction of the realm. Charles's military innovation was strikingly simple and clearly evolutionary. It amounted to little more than the enforcement of many previous royal edicts concerning military affairs directed against independent mercenary companies.

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Studies in the Renaissance , Volume 19 , 1972 , pp. 78 - 111
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1972

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1 I would like to thank Mr. Bryce Lyon, Mr. Anthony Molho, and Mr. W. F. Church for their guidance and assistance while I was doing the research for this paper as part of my doctoral dissertation at Brown University. Those who are interested in the use and nature of military force in early modern Europe will look forward, as I do, with great anticipation to the forthcoming study of the French royal army from 1337 to 1494 by M. Philippe Contamine, which promises to be the definitive treatment of that topic.

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