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The urban revolts in Northern France of late medieval period revealed the internal and external solidarity. Regarding the internal one, the professional and regional solidarity that the bourgeois had shared before the revolts functioned as a prime mover of the upheavals. However, the solidarity did not prove long-lasting. The fact that bourgeois solidarity was gradually weakened appears to be evident considering that haute bourgeois who actively joined the 1358 revolts was virtually absent from the revolts in the 1380s, and the revolts of Cabochiens in 1413 were led by lower bourgeois. Externally, professional and regional solidarity mattered as well. The spread of urban revolts into the extended areas was mainly due to the role of commercial networks in conveying the initial revolts, as in the case of commercial solidarity of the cities arrayed from Paris to Flanders. Increasing personal and material exchanges allowed the urban dwellers to share the economic interests and made their social structures similar. Through the networks, these cities became a regional unit. In this respect, the urban revolts in late medieval ages indicated a process of extending from a medieval geographical unit based on a city and its suburb into modern regional unit of larger areas that would be eventually evolvedinto a centralized kingdom. It was none other than the monarchy that made the most of this centralization process which dismantled traditional networks of solidarity.