History of Arras in France
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The siege of Arras of 1640: how did the town become French?
In 1640, the armies of Louis XIII take Arras from the Spanish: the siege, the famous saying of the mice and the cats, and the beginning of the attachment to France.
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The troubles of Arras (1577-1578): how did the town cross the revolt?
In 1577-1578, Arras knew intense troubles during the revolt of the Low Countries: factional struggles, religious tensions and agitation, before the choice of loyalty.
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The Union of Arras of 1579: why did it divide the Low Countries?
In 1579, the Union of Arras gathered the Catholic provinces of the South, faithful to Spain, against the Union of Utrecht of the Protestant North: the partition of the Low Countries.
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Arras under Charles V: what was the Habsburg town?
In the 16th century, Arras belonged to the empire of Charles V: a border and Catholic town of the Habsburg Low Countries, facing France, before the Spanish period.
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The plague epidemics in Arras: how did the town face the scourge?
From the Black Death of the 14th century to the deadly returns of the following centuries, the plague epidemics struck Arras: fear, care, religion and consequences.
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Burgundian Arras: what golden age under the dukes of Burgundy?
In the 14th-15th centuries, Arras was one of the great towns of the Burgundian state: prosperity, splendour of the ducal court, artistic patronage, before the brutal end of 1477.
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The Treaty of Arras of 1482: what fate for the Artois?
The Treaty of Arras of 1482 betrothed Margaret of Austria to the dauphin of France, the Artois as dowry: a broken marriage that finally tipped the region to the Habsburgs.
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Louis XI and Arras: how did the king reconquer the Artois?
Buy-back, reconquest and repopulation: how Louis XI seized Arras after the death of Charles the Bold, punishing the town faithful to Burgundy.
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The Vauderie of Arras: how did a witch-hunt arise?
In 1459-1460, the Vauderie of Arras, one of the first great witch-hunts, sent innocents to the stake before their rehabilitation by the Parlement in 1491.
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Joan of Arc prisoner: what link with Arras and the Artois?
Captured in 1430, Joan of Arc was a prisoner of the Burgundians, masters of the Artois of which Arras was the capital, before being sold to the English and burned at Rouen.
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The Congress of Arras of 1435: how did the peace change the war?
In 1435, the Congress of Arras reconciles Charles VII and the duke of Burgundy, breaks the Anglo-Burgundian alliance and tips the Hundred Years' War.
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The battle of Agincourt (1415): what disaster for the Artois?
On 25 October 1415, the battle of Agincourt, at the gates of Arras, decimated the chivalry of the Artois: context, course, regional mourning and consequences.
