The French court remained itinerant throughout the Middle Ages. The king went from estate to estate to hunt or to make war, but the birth of the State was accompanied by the development of a central administration in Paris. Some key points of this development were: - In 1146 King Louis VII established his treasury in Paris while he was away on Crusade. From then on the royal treasure remained in Paris. - In 1194, at the battle of Freteval, King Philippe-Auguste was robbed of his archives by the English. The archives after that were kept in Paris.Meanwhile, it seems that it was above all in financial matters that the King wanted to establish a permanent seat. With the growth of the royal domain, the king`s tax collectors couldn`t continue to follow the king around the country from chateau to chateau. It was King Philippe-Auguste who endowed Paris with its institutions. Paris thus became a city of officials, lawyers and students.