The reign of Louis XI. Bird Dutayi Sh.

By the time of the death of King Charles VII, the winner in the centenary war, the position of the French kingdom was difficult. Dauphin Louis, who became King Louis XI, forced to conflict with those who previously supported him in the struggle with his father -king - with large French feudal lords. A fracture in relations with Burgundy was especially sharp. If with the Duke Philip Dobry, who, before the coronation of Louis, was not just an ally for him, but just a patron, the case did not reach the open confrontation, then the son and successor of Philip, the Duke of Burgundy Karl Smey, turned into an enemy of the new king. The struggle against Burgundy was one of the main affairs in the reign of Louis XI and ended with a complete success for the French king.

Charles Bird Dutayi, the famous French historian of the late XIX - the first half of the 20th century, analyzes as external (relations with England, Spain, Italy, Roman dads), and the domestic policy of Louis XI. The author devotes a lot of space to the description of the king’s personality - his complex character and relations with different classes of French society.