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Topic: Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War
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Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War

Years: 1407 - 1435

The Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War is a French civil war between two cadet branches of the French royal family — the House of Orleans (Armagnac faction) and the House of Burgundy (Burgundian faction) from 1407 to 1435.

It occurs while France has already been ravaged by the Hundred Years' War against the English and the wars surrounding the Western Schism of the papacy.

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."

― Winston S. Churchill, Speech (March 2, 1944)