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Bal Des Ardents
- jihadjihad 7y agoAnyone interested in this should check out Froissart's Chronicles [0], written at the height of chivalric culture. Some of the imagery and descriptions of battle are astounding even today. The Bal des Ardents is the third image seen in [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froissart%27s_Chronicles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froissart%27s_Chronicles
- merciBien 7y agoFascinating to imagine witnessing these events. The mad king, disguised and dancing at a party, narrowly escapes death!
- thrower123 7y agoI've always loved the illustrations from Froissart's Chronicles. I'd love to find a full-color reproduction some day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froissart%27s_Chronicles#/media/File:BattleofSluys.jpeg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froissart%27s_Chronicles#/medi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froissart%27s_Chronicles#/media/File:BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vBatNevilleCross.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froissart%27s_Chronicles#/medi...
- dole 7y agoNever read about the Battle of Sluys [1], what a blowout :o [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sluys https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sluys
- merciBien 7y agoWas this post inspired by the US presidential impeachment trial and political immolation of senators who dare to dance before the news cameras?
- dang 7y ago"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- olooney 7y agoI always thought this was a failed assassination attempt: "Now, now, your highness, don't dwell on the fact that your mental illness has become a major liability to the nobility and just have fun tonight! And by "fun", I mean, allow me to sew you into this highly flammable costume and chain you up to these other dancers, also in highly flammable costumes. It's really the done thing, you know. You'll be fine unless your brother, who is next in line to inherit the throne, happens to show up and start poking a torch at the dancers." French royal weddings seemed like a dangerous place to be. A few centuries later, over a hundred people died at the wedding of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI[1], trappled to death fleeing a fire started by a firework mishap. [1]: https://findery.com/ChiefCurator/notes/tragedy-at-the-wedding-of-marie-antoinette-louis-xvi https://findery.com/ChiefCurator/notes/tragedy-at-the-weddin...
- leoc 7y agoIt's a fun theory, but it doesn't seem as if the evidence quite supports it. You'd have to be willing to kill several other powerful French noblemen at the same time, a risky business. And that group includes the guy whose idea the dance supposedly was.
- janpot 7y agoFunny coincidence, I'm currently reading "de Bourgondiers"[0] and this event was just mentioned in the passage I read yesterday. [0]: https://www.flandersliterature.be/books-and-authors/book/the-burgundians https://www.flandersliterature.be/books-and-authors/book/the...