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** Also Etienne Marcel's rising in Paris after Poitiers, the Peasants' Revolt in England and the ''Praguerie''.
** Given that the Plantagenets were a French family, the entire war could be viewed as a French [[Civil War]] that one side was able to rope England into.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Charles VII of France was a spindly neurotic whose own mother claimed he was a bastard, and had a deathly fear of wooden floors after the floor of an overcrowded inn collapsed on him, and bridges after he saw John the Fearless murdered on one. Despised by virtually everyone, for much of his early reign he was taken advantage of by a succession of "favorites" who would use the borrowed authority to acquire wealth and power. Thing is, they would also centralize power in France--thinking they'd be the ones to enjoy it--then get killed by the next "favorite", allowing Charles to gradually increase his power while [[Not So Harmless|everyone was busy despising him.]] The end result--by the time the English collapsed into civil war, Charles was the ruler of a powerful, fairly united France, with a large, loyal army. [[The Magnificent|And that resulted in Charles winding up with the nickname "Charles the Victorious".]] It wasn't exactly [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], as he really was a neurotic mess, but he was [[The Chessmaster|a lot smarter than people realized]]. [[Magnificent Bastard|And his son, Louis XI was even more badass.]]
* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: Some French people worked for the English. The most infamous is probably [[Sinister Minister|Pierre Cauchon]], the bishop of Beauvais, who presided over Jeanne d'Arc's unfair trial.
** To be fair, a lot of them might not have thought of themselves as "French" at the time, but as subjects of their [[Feudal Overlord]]. Most European nations had not taken a cohesive form then.
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* [[Frivolous Lawsuit]]: A lot of the arguments used by lawyers and theologians to justify their party qualify. For instance, the French rejected Edward III's claim to the French throne by invoking the ancient Salic Law (which however only dealt with the inheritance of property, not royal succession), as well as a court decision from 1316 (which only prevented a woman from actually ''being'' France's ruler, not from transmitting the title). A French theologian [[Retcon|retroactively declared the murder of the Duke of Orléans justifiable tyrannicide]].
** Fun fact: In the Breton War of Succession, England and France took the exact opposite positions to the ones they took in the main war ''re'' male and female succession.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: King John of Bohemia. Despite he was blind for a decade, he still fought at the frontlines in the Battle of Crécy on the side of the French. It's said that his last words were ''"[[Pre
* [[Historical Villain Upgrade]]: In France: Charles VI the Mad's queen Isabeau of Bavaria for her part in the Treaty of Troyes (1420).
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Two Johns: King John the Blind of Bohemia fought at Crécy on the French side and was unsurprisingly killed. King John II the Good of was captured at Poitiers (the French call it Maupertuis) and released when in the treaty of Brétigny (1360), he ceded large parts of France and promised a huge ransom, leaving his son, the duke of Anjou, in England as a hostage. When the duke managed to escape before the ransom was fully paid, John II felt duty-bound to return to London himself in 1364, where he died the same year.
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* [[Sequel]]: The [[Wars of the Roses]] (1455-1487), which doubles as a spin-off.
** Some historians classify the global conflicts between France and England from 1688 to 1815 as the "Second Hundred Years' War."
* [[Spin
* [[Succession Crisis]]: The war began due to the French one, but then the deposition and (probable) murder of Richard II caused one in England as well, which was ultimately settled only at the end of the [[Wars of the Roses]].
* [[Tomboy]]: Jeanne d'Arc.
* [[Tragic Mistake]]: The killing of John the Fearless of Burgundy in 1419. It will likely never be clear if it was a murder ordered by the future Charles VII or an unpremeditated act of his followers (who wanted to avenge the murder of the Duke of Orléans), but the consequences for Charles were disastrous as it drove the Burgundians into the arms of the English. Talleyrand's "''It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder''" eminently applies.
* [[War Is Hell]] : When you have 100 years of [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|rape, pillage and looting]], it is to be expected.
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* [[The Woobie]]: Jeanne d'Arc again.
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