Étienne Marcel leads Paris against the dauphin
February 1357
The provost of merchants, exploiting the crown's prostration after Poitiers, forced the eighteen-year-old dauphin Charles to accept the Great Ordinance: regular meetings of the Estates General, royal accountability to its commissioners, and strict controls on royal spending. Paris briefly looked like a constitutional monarchy. Marcel would be murdered in a year and a half.
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Also in 1357 (4 other events on record)
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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