During the Early Modern period, the court of France offered a particularly favorable arena of action to the many women who formed the entourage of queens and princesses. Drawing upon a broad variety of sources, this volume explores their functions and status in courtly society, as well as the evolving roles of women in the circles of power, from...

What role did the Flemish play in the birth of the French nation? What did a clerk from Brittany or a nobleman from Provence knew about Bovines, Kortrijk, Cassel or Roosebeke, battles that are emblematic of the five-century fight between Flanders and the Kingdom of France? What was said at that time in Normandy or in Auvergne about Flanders...

From Artois to Burgundy, Marguerite of France can be regarded as a female incarnation of political reformism during the Hundred Years' War.

The recent creation of the metropolis of the Grand Paris, whose area is the same since 1860, encourages to an historial reflexion about the limits of the town, which is at the center of the biggest urban region in Europe since the Middle Ages.