allowed Charles V to create the Royal Library, which would later become the Bibliothèque nationale de France, France's national library in Paris. Within his own residence, Charles V included a room for the Conseil du Roi where affairs of state were conducted. Etiquette The Hôtel Saint-Pol and other palaces were the sites where the first versions of a royal etiquette at the French court were developed. Charles V, for instance, had his servants dressed in liveries appropriate to the stature of a king of France. The Hôtel Saint-Pol in the 15th and 16th centuries After Charles VII fled to Bourges in 1418, the Hôtel Saint-Pol was abandoned by Charles and his successors. Louis XI preferred the Château de Plessis-lez-Tours, and when visiting Paris stayed at the Château de Vincennes. Charles VIII, Louis XII, and Francis I lived in the Loire Valley or at the Château de Fontainebleau, and the Hôtel Saint-Pol fell into ruin. In 1519, part of it was sold by order of Francis I, and several years later, it was completely demolished. A wall of the church of Saint-Paul, which formed part of the hôtel, survives to this day. Notes Bibliography Bordonove, Georges (1988). Les Rois qui ont fait la France - Les Valois - Charles V le Sage, vol. 1, éditions Pygmalion. . Emery, Anthony (2016). Seats of Power in Europe during the Hundred Years War: An Architectural Study from 1330 to 1480. Oxford: Oxbow Books. . Lorentz, Philippe; Dany Sandron (2006). Atlas de Paris au Moyen Âge. Paris: Parigramme. . Saint-Pol Former buildings and structures in Paris Saint-Pol Hotel Saint-Paul Buildings and structures demolished in the 16th century