ELD4959655 The Bal des ardents or ball des sauvages unhappy consequence of a charivari (or mumerie) organizes in order to distract the king of France Charles VI on 28 January 1393 - the king is saved by his aunt Jeanne de Boulogne, then fourteen-year-old duchess of Berry, who immediately wraps him with his dress and petticoats to stifle the flames ( Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men or Ball of the Wild Men) 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 a spectator, Charles\'s brother Louis, Duke of Orleans - The Duchess of Berry holds her blue skirts over a barely visible Charles VI of France as the dancers tear at their burning costumes) Engraving from ???aris-a-Trans-les-Siecles??by H Gourdon of knee 19th century Private Collection; Private Collection; (add.info.: The Bal des ardents or ball des sauvages unhappy consequence of a charivari (or mumerie) organizes in order to distract the king of France Charles VI on 28 January 1393 - the king is saved by his aunt Jeanne de Boulogne, then fourteen-year-old duchess of Berry, who immediately wraps him with his dress and petticoats to stifle the flames ( Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men or Ball of the Wild Men) 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 a spectator, Charles\'s brother Louis, Duke of Orleans - The Duchess of Berry holds her blue skirts over a barely visible Charles VI of France as the dancers tear at their burning costumes) Engraving from ???aris-a-Trans-les-Siecles??by H Gourdon of knee 19th century Private Collection); Photo by The Holbarn Archive.