In keeping with the policies of previous Capetian and Valois monarchs, Louis asserted the supremacy of the king within the territory of France.

Over the course of the preceding centuries, and during the Hundred Years' War, the French kings had effected an administrative unification of the country.

Unlike Germany, which languished as a miscellany of feudal factions, France emerged from the Middle Ages as a centralized state.

[4] To defend himself against the alliance of rebellious nobles arrayed against him, Louis XI allied with Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, and the people of Liège.

However, the king's position weakened after the confrontation, especially as he was unable to prevent the junction, on 19 July, of the Burgundian and Breton armies, soon joined by the Counts of Armagnac and Albret and the Duke of Lorraine.

But Louis XI was strongly supported by the States General at Tours in April, and succeeded in separating Francis II and Charles of France from the Leaguers (Treaty of Ancenis).

The Mad war, a later conflict in France from 1485 that also featured a League of the Public Weal fighting against the French king