Praguerie
thumb|Illustration of the Praguerie of 1440 in Les Vigiles de Charles VII, manuscript by Martial d'Auvergne, circa 1484 The Praguerie () was a revolt of the French nobility against King Charles VII from February to July 1440.
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thumb|Illustration of the Praguerie of 1440 in Les Vigiles de Charles VII, manuscript by Martial d'Auvergne, circa 1484 The Praguerie () was a revolt of the French nobility against King Charles VII from February to July 1440.
It was so named because a similar rising had recently taken place in Prague, Bohemia, at that time closely associated with France through the House of Luxembourg, kings of Bohemia. Its causes lay in the reforms of Charles VII at the close of the Hundred Years' War, by which he sought to diminish the anarchy in France and its brigand-soldiery. The ordinances passed by the estates of ''langue d'oïl at Orléans in 1439 not only gave the king an aid of 100,000 francs (an act which was later used by the king as though it were a perpetual grant and so freed him from that parliamentary control of the purse so important in England), but demanded as well royal nominations to officerships in the army, marking a gain in the royal prerogative which the nobility resolved to challenge.