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French Foreign Policy, 1460–1560

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A History of France, 1460–1560

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For Pierre Choisnet, writing the Rosier des guerres under the direction of his master Louis XI around 1481–2, ‘the noble kings of France have always aimed and worked to expand and enlarge their kingdom’. Given the perpetuation of the ideology of the princely warrior and chevalier, arguably at least down to the reign of Henri IV, war was an inescapable reality for those in control of state policy and for the whole population. There was no choice because, in a sense, war was the raison d’être both of the state and of the social order.1

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Potter, D. (1995). French Foreign Policy, 1460–1560. In: A History of France, 1460–1560. New Studies in Medieval History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23848-4_9

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