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-# actes-princiers
+# Actes princiers
 
+The research project "Actes princiers in the Kingdom of France (14th-16th centuries)" aims to gather and edit the acts produced by the chancelleries of various French princes and princesses of royal blood from the 14th and 15th centuries. This mostly unpublished collection aims to shed light on the interactions between the power strategies of the princes of the Late Middle Ages and the methods of writing used by their chancelleries.