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The Mad War (" la Guerre folle " in French ), also known as the War of the Public Weal , was a late Medieval conflict between a coalition of feudal lords and the French monarchy . It occurred during the regency of Anne of Beaujeu in the period after the death of Louis XI and before the majority of Charles VIII . The war began in ___MASK61___ and ended in 1488 . France , officially the French Republic , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . France spans and had a total population of almost ___MASK35___ million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . Louis XI ( ___MASK64___ July ___MASK15___  30 August 1483 ), called the Prudent , was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1461 to 1483 . He succeeded his father Charles VII . Charles VII ( ___MASK41___ February ___MASK86___  ___MASK41___ July ___MASK70___ ), called the Victorious or the Well - Served , was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1422 to his death . Seine - Maritime is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France . It is situated on the northern coast of France , at the mouth of the Seine , and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre . Until ___MASK42___ it was named " Seine - Inférieure ". Jean ( or Jehan ) Fouquet ( ___MASK10___  1481 ) was a preeminent French painter of the 15th century , a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination , and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature . He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first - hand the early Italian Renaissance . Agnès Sorel ( ___MASK1___  9 February 1450 ), known by the sobriquet " Dame de beauté ", was a favourite mistress of King Charles VII of France , by whom she bore three daughters . She is considered the first officially recognized royal mistress . She was the subject of several contemporary paintings and works of art , including Jean Fouquet ' s " Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels ". Anne of France ( or Anne de Beaujeu ) ( ___MASK64___ April ___MASK70___  14 November 1522 ) was the eldest daughter of Louis XI by his second wife , Charlotte of Savoy . Anne was the sister of Charles VIII , for whom she acted as regent during his minority . During the regency she was one of the most powerful women of late fifteenth - century Europe and was referred to as " Madame la Grande ". Villequier is a former commune in the Seine - Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France . On ___MASK62___ January 2016 , it was merged into the new commune of Rives - en - Seine . Brittany ( pronounced or ; Gallo : " Bertaèyn ", pronounced ) is a cultural region in the north - west of France . Covering the western part of Armorica , as it was known during the period of Roman occupation , Brittany subsequently became an independent kingdom and then a duchy before being united with the Kingdom of France in ___MASK46___ as a province governed as if it were a separate nation under the crown . Brittany has also been referred to as " Less ", " Lesser " or " Little " Britain ( as opposed to " Great Britain "). It is bordered by the English Channel to the north , the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the Bay of Biscay to the south . Its land area is ___MASK5___ , 023 km² . A favourite or favorite ( American English ) was the intimate companion of a ruler or other important person . In medieval and Early Modern Europe , among other times and places , the term is used of individuals delegated significant political power by a ruler . It was especially a phenomenon of the 16th and 17th centuries , when government had become too complex for many hereditary rulers with no great interest in or talent for it , and political institutions were still evolving . From ___MASK31___ to ___MASK8___ there were particular successions of all - powerful minister - favourites in much of Europe , especially in Spain , England , France and Sweden . The House of Valois was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty . They succeeded the House of Capet ( or " Direct Capetians ") to the French throne , and were the royal house of France from ___MASK28___ to ___MASK14___ . Junior members of the family founded cadet branches in Orléans , Anjou , Burgundy , and Alençon . Francis II of Brittany ( in Breton Frañsez II , in French François II ) ( ___MASK77___ June ___MASK13___  9 September 1488 ) was Duke of Brittany from 1458 to his death . He was the son of Richard of Brittany and the grandson of Duke John IV . A recurring theme in Francis ' life would be his quest to maintain the quasi - independence of Brittany from France . As such , his reign was characterised by conflicts with King Louis XI of France and with his daughter , Anne of France , who served as regent during the minority of her brother , Charles VIII . The armed and unarmed conflicts between 1484 - 1488 have been called the Mad War (" la Guerre Folle ") and also the War of the Public Weal . The Seine is a long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France . It rises at Source - Seine , northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau , flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre ( and Honfleur on the left bank ). It is navigable by ocean - going vessels as far as Rouen , from the sea . Over ___MASK68___ percent of its length , as far as Burgundy , is negotiable by commercial riverboats and nearly its whole length is available for recreational boating ; excursion boats offer sightseeing tours of the " Rive Droite " and " Rive Gauche " within the city of Paris . Antoinette de Maignelais ( 1434 -- 1474 ) was the chief mistress of Charles VII of France from ___MASK20___ until his death . The Baroness of Villequier by marriage , she replaced her cousin Agnès Sorel as the king ' s favourite mistress after Sorel ' s sudden death in ___MASK20___ . Later in life she was the mistress of Francis II , Duke of Brittany .