History of France / Valois Dynasty"Coronation of Charles V; King of France (1364) Miniature of the Chronicles of Froissart".Charles V; known as Charles the Wise; born on January 21; 1338 in Vincennes and died September 16; 1380 in Beaut?sur-Marne; crowned king of France on May 19; 1364 in the Cathedral of Reims; reigns until his death In 1380. His reign marks the end of the first part of the Hundred Years' War. He succeeds in recovering almost all the land lost by his predecessors; restoring the authority of the State and raising the kingdom of its ruins. Very well educated; he founded the first royal library; ancestor of the Biblioth鑡ue nationale de France.Chromolithography; 19th century; facsimile of the medieval miniature (Private collection).