The marmousets (referred to as les petites gens) is a nickname, first recorded in the chronicles of Jean Froissart, for a group of counselors to Charles VI of France.
His four uncles – the dukes of Burgundy, Berry, Anjou and Bourbon – served as his regents, entrusted with governing France.
In November 1388, Pierre Aycelin de Montaigut, Cardinal of Laon, proposed in court that Charles VI relieve the dukes of their duties and assume control of the government.
The marmousets' position as privy council ended on 5 August 1392, due to Charles VI's decline into insanity.
[3] Some of the marmousets eventually returned to their duties in minor posts, and while they were no longer a faction, many of their ideas were later put into practice by Charles VII, who became the natural heir of their policies.