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To: Scrambler Bob

I found it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_des_Ardents

Brief description -
The Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men[1]) or the Bal des Sauvages[2] (Ball of the Wild Men), was a masquerade ball[note 1] held on 28 January 1393 in Paris at which Charles VI of France performed in a dance with five members of the French nobility. Four of the dancers were killed in a fire caused by a torch brought in by Charles’s brother Louis I, Duke of OrlĂ©ans.

A tragic event with drama and irony.


9 posted on 09/26/2023 9:01:16 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: Scrambler Bob

As I remember, he had to be sewn into his costume, no zipper in those days.


10 posted on 09/26/2023 9:08:45 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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