Karl der Siebente, Vater Ludwig des Elften, erkannte, nachdem er Frankreich von den Engländern befreit hatte, die Nothwendigkeit eigner Waffen, und errichtete in seinem Lande die Gensd’armes und das Fußvolk.
Charles the Seventh, the father of King Louis the Eleventh, having by good fortune and valour liberated France from the English, recognized the necessity of being armed with forces of his own, and he established in his kingdom ordinances concerning men-at-arms and infantry.