Étienne Marcel

1315–1358

Étienne Marcel was provost of the merchants of Paris during the crisis years of the Hundred Years’ War. He became a leading figure in urban resistance to royal authority after the capture of John II of France at Poitiers.

In Maurice Druon’s The King without a Kingdom, the dauphin Charles faces Étienne Marcel in Paris, Charles of Navarre's ambitions and the Jacquerie, while the captive king attempts to preserve an ideal of honour that his damaged kingdom can no longer afford.

Historical context

Historical periods linked to Étienne Marcel

Hundred Years’ War 1337–1453 CE

Series

Series featuring Étienne Marcel (1 series)

The Accursed Kings in Order

by Maurice Druon 7 books 4.2

The Accursed Kings follows the French and English monarchies from the final year of Philip IV's reign in 1314 to the capture of John II at Poitiers and the political crisis of the late 1350s. Across seven novels, the direct Capetian line fails, the Valois dynasty takes the…

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