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The charter of communes varied in length, emphasis and completeness. And their contents usually gave an incomplete picture of a town's internal life, and in some cases reflected only the particular events. Despite the limitation of these documents, they can be used to obtain information on the relationship of the communes with the feudal lords including kings. In many of the charters of commune, Kings required the townsmen to give them ost and chevauché, but the clauses of administration or political autonomy in which the townsmen surely took a great interest are relatively scanty. All in all the "independence" which was the ideal of so many communes rarely went beyond varying degrees of limited administrative autonomy. Let's ponder over the words('libertas' and 'franchisia') which appear in charters. Some historians argue that they refer to an essentially political freedom. According to them, though 'libertas' and 'franchisia' normally appear in the sense of a privilege, these privileges came to include the rights of government which may be regarded as the right of independent political action. But, in my opionion, we should pay attention to P. Michaud-Quentin's analysis of 'libertas': "Essentially the liberty in the Middle Ages is opposed to the arbitrary acts of the superior[...] To be free is to have the power to discuss the limits of submission and to acquire the defined status fixing the rights and obligations."In conclusion, we must appreciate the significance of the communal movement. For the ideological reasons certain authors have insisted that the commune shook the feudal system and established a sort of a liberal and democratic government. But it is clear that despite the assertions of some writers who glorified the medieval commune as the "triumphs for the Third Estates", the commune was in all aspects neither revolutionary nor independent.Key Words : commun