Daily Quiz for February 26, 2010

Cloth merchant. After King John the Good was captured at the battle of Portiers in 1356 and power passed to his son, the Dauphin Charles, France fell into near chaos. Etienne Marcel, provost of the merchants of Paris, forced upon Charles the Great Ordinance of 1357, which gave Marcel and his followers economic and judicial powers and began a reform of the French government.