The present corpus of texts contains 518 documents from the County of Provence, in the south of present-day France, between 1382 and 1480, all of which, verbatim or indirectly, reveal the content of petitions presented by communities, from the largest cities such as Marseille, Arles or Aix-en-Provence, to small villages, to the Counts of Provence, their sovereign princes. These counts belong to the dynasty of the Princes of Anjou, descended in a direct line from Louis of Anjou (died in 1384), brother of the King of France Charles VI: Marie de Blois, widow of Louis and regent in the name of her son Louis II, Louis II himself (1389-1417) then his sons Louis III (1417-1434) and René (1434-1480)The petitions presented by the communities have survived in their original form only in very exceptional cases. The present database contains only two of them, very late (documents 517 and 518). The letters given in response to these requests, however, by the princes or their officers, allow us to know the content of the petitions to which they respond. In some cases, the content of these letters repeats, reformulating it in chancery language, the content of the petitions received (example, document 251). In other, more interesting cases, the princely letters transcribe the petitions verbatim before formulating the responses (example, document 168). These petitions, finally, can be simple, that is to say they only concern a single subject (example, document 9) or capitulated, that is to say they contain two or more articles, to which as many articles are given in response. Such letters can be very long, containing up to 80 articles (document 103). With rare exceptions (documents 351 and 376), both the petitions and the letters given in response are written in Latin, which is the usual language of the chancellery and administration of the counts of Provence until the very end of the Middle Ages.
