Which 1438 French decree is famous for asserting church liberties against papal control?

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Issued by Charles VII at Bourges in 1438, this decree adopted key reforms from the Council of Basel to protect the “liberties” of the French (Gallican) Church. It curtailed papal financial exactions like annates, limited Rome’s right to appoint to benefices by restoring local elections of bishops and abbots, and affirmed the conciliarist idea that general councils could supersede papal authority. In practice, it both checked papal control and enhanced royal oversight of the French church.

The measure emerged during the late Hundred Years’ War, when French monarchy sought autonomy from Rome. Its provisions shaped French Gallicanism for decades, until the Concordat of Bologna (1516) replaced it by granting the king broad nomination powers while reconciling with the papacy.