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TIL that in 1393, a masquerade ball ended in disaster when the drunk brother of King Charles VI, Louis, entered the hall with a torch and ignited the costumes of four nobles, killing them. The ball was meant to cheer up King Charles, who had recently suffered a severe episode of madness.

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