1393 CE
Bal Des Ardents
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The Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men), or the Bal des Sauvages (Ball of the Wild Men), was a masquerade ball held on 28 January 1393 in Paris, France, at which King Charles VI had a dance performance with five members of the French nobility. Four of the dancers were killed in a fire caused by a torch brought in by Louis I, Duke of Orléans, the king's brother. The ball, held at the royal palace of Saint-Pol, was one of a series of events organised to entertain Charles, who had suffered an attack of insanity in the previous summer of that year during an expedition at Le Mans.
People
- Hugh Capet of France · 940 CE – 996 CE
- Charles V · 1500 CE – 1558 CE
- Louis XIV of France · 1638 CE – 1715 CE