Controller General of Finances from 1783 to 1787, his plan of reforms, introducing a certain equality before the tax ( reform of the management of public funds and the method of distributing taxes), met with opposition from the privileged classes and brought him disgrace.
Third king of the so-called branch of Valois, Charles V is the son of John II the Good. He is the first heir to use the title dauphin, after his father acquired the province of Dauphiné. Charles must very early ensure the Regency of the kingdom after the capture of his father in Poitiers. In 1358, t