Assassination of Louis of Orleans

Context

The Guerre One hundred Year old knows a truce. The English underwent a patient reconquest of the territory carried out by valorous captains (like Bertrand of Guesclin), under the reign of Charles V of France, and face serious political disturbances.

The king of France Charles VI sank in the madness since 1392 and France is controlled by a council of regency, chaired by the queen Isabeau, but controlled by the large ones of the kingdom.

Thomas de Courteheuse states to him that the king Charles VI urgently awaits it the Saint-Paul hotel.

He is stabbed at his exit by about fifteen masked shadies. Being able to seize the power, it can thus acknowledge the assassination publicly. Far from hiding some, Jean without Peur makes write a praise of the tyrannicide by the theologist Jean Petit, academic of the Sorbonne

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