Charles VII in The Arts
- Appears as Charles, The Dauphin in Jean Anouilh's play The Lark
- Appears as Charles the Dauphin in George Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan
- Appears as the Dauphin in Maxwell Anderson's Joan of Lorraine
- Appears as a significant character in Thomas Keneally's novel "Blood Red, Sister Rose".
- Appears as 'The Dauphin' in William Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 1, and as 'King Charles' in Henry VI Part III.
- Two Russian operas from the late 19th century portray Charles VII (and Agnès Sorel) among the dramatis personæ. These are Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Maid of Orléans and César Cui's The Saracen.
- Charles VII's relationship with Joan of Arc is imagined fancifully in the 1975 Broadway musical Goodtime Charley.
- Charles VII has been represented in the movies by Raymond Hatton (1917), Jean Debucourt (1929), Gustaf Gründgens (1935), Emlyn Williams (1935), Max Adrian (1944), José Ferrer (1948), Paul Colline (1955), Richard Widmark (1957), Daniel Gélin (1978), Keith Drinkel (1979), Oleg Kulko (1993), John Malkovich (1999), Neil Patrick Harris (1999)
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