`titrebThe circulation of Financial officers in the Burgundian State (mid. 14th-late 15th Century)`/titrebThe gathering of many principalities in the Burgundian states combined with the mobility of the court of the Valois dukes and their connection to French monarchy led to the acceleration of a phenomenon already documented since the late thirteenth century : mobility of finance officers. Treasurers, receivers, masters of accounts recruited from the clergy, urban bourgeoisie and bureaucracy, often had to abandon a strictly local environment for their career, otherwise to remain in poor positions. As central institutions were settled in capitals as Dijon or Lille, some officers could install there ; cities essential to the functioning of the princely finances as Bruges also drew some of financial managers eager to adopt the housing and artistic consumption of urban elites and curiales. They were exposed in 1477 to a backlash as the protests against centralization exploded after the death of Charles the Bold. Still, the desire to anchor their family land, intending to access the nobility, often pushed the highest finance officers to maintain their ties to their homeland, attempting a complex interplay between global and local levels.