An infamous ball in 14th century France hosted by the French King Charles VI is remembered as 'Ball of (what) Men' referring to an incident that occurred in it?
"(""Ball of the Burning Men"") because of the tragedy that ensued, had been organized by Isabeau of Bavaria to celebrate the wedding of one of her ladies-in-waiting at the ""Hôtel Saint-Pol"". At the suggestion of Huguet de Guisay, the king and four other lords dressed up as wild men and danced about. They were dressed ""in costumes of linen cloth sewn onto their bodies and soaked in resinous wax or pitch to hold a covering of frazzled hemp, so that they appeared shaggy & hairy from head to foot"". At the suggestion of one Yvain de Foix, the king commanded"
"Ball"""") was held by Charles VI of France, and intended as a ""Bal des sauvages"" (""""Wild Men's Ball""""), a form of costumed ball (""morisco""). It took place in celebration of the marriage of a lady-in-waiting of Charles VI of France's queen in Paris on January 28, 1393. The King and five courtiers dressed as wildmen of the woods (woodwoses), with costumes of flax and pitch. When they came too close to a torch, the dancers caught fire. (This episode may have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's short story ""Hop-Frog"".) Such costumed dances were a special luxury of the Ducal Court of"
"Another edition of Froissart's ""Chronicles"" published in Paris around 1508 may have been made expressly for Maria of Cleves. The edition has 25 miniatures in the margins; the single full-page illustration is of the ""Bal des Ardents"". Bal des Ardents The Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men) or Bal des Sauvages (Ball of the Wild Men) was a masquerade ball 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"
"his, also called William, ran against him and wounded himself on a sheathed knife carried by the canon, so severely that he died within six days. Dispensation is granted, as no blame is attached to William de Spalding, who, feeling deeply the death of his friend, and fearing what might be said by his enemies, has applied to the pope."" Banning of ball games began in France in 1331 by Philip VI, presumably the ball game known as La soule. In the mid-fourteenth century a misericord at Gloucester cathedral, England shows two young men playing a ball game. It looks"
"suffered an attack of insanity. The event undermined confidence in Charles's capacity to rule; Parisians considered it proof of courtly decadence and threatened to rebel against the more powerful members of the nobility. The public's outrage forced the King and his brother Orléans, whom a contemporary chronicler accused of attempted regicide and sorcery, to offer penance for the event. Charles's wife, Isabeau of Bavaria, held the ball to honor the remarriage of a lady-in-waiting. Scholars believe the dance performed at the ball had elements of traditional ""charivari"", with the dancers disguised as wild men, mythical beings often associated with demonology,"
"body was covered with hair as the beasts are, and down the back it had a long coarse mane like that of a horse, which fell to both sides and trailed along the ground when the creature stooped in walking. King Charles VI of France and five of his courtiers were dressed as wild men and chained together for a ""masquerade"" at the tragic ""Bal des Sauvages"" which occurred in Paris at the Hôtel Saint-Pol, 28 January 1393. They were ""in costumes of linen cloth sewn onto their bodies and soaked in resinous wax or pitch to hold a covering"
"to prevent the loss of tennis balls. James was trapped and killed. Francis I of France (1515–47) was an enthusiastic player and promoter of real tennis, building courts and encouraging play among the courtiers and commoners. His successor Henry II (1547–59) was also an excellent player and continued the royal French tradition. In 1555 an Italian priest, Antonio Scaino da Salothe, wrote the first known book about tennis, ""Trattato del Giuoco della Palla"". Two French kings died from tennis related episodes—Louis X of a severe chill after playing and Charles VIII after hitting his head during a game. King Charles"
"Duchess of Richmond's ball The Duchess of Richmond's ball was a ball hosted by Charlotte, Duchess of Richmond in Brussels on 15 June 1815, the night before the Battle of Quatre Bras. Charlotte's husband Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, was in command of a reserve force in Brussels, which was protecting that city in case Napoleon Bonaparte invaded. Elizabeth Longford described it as ""the most famous ball in history"". ""The ball was certainly a brilliant affair"", at which ""with the exception of three generals, every officer high in [Wellington's] army was there to be seen"". According to Lady Georgiana,"
"men spread around, not on their home squares. The ""Gazette"" had said that the men were of ivory and Kokcha lapis lazuli and they and the table had belonged to and been played with by Louis XIV, and that the men were kept in the position after the ninth move of Paul Morphy's most famous game, his defeat of the Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard in Paris in 1858,"" In the same chapter, Archie Goodwin tried to guess the next moves of a game that he was watching. After failing every time, he ""conceded that I would never be"
"clothes, so that he would not shatter if he came into contact with another person. This condition has come to be known as glass delusion. Charles VI's secretary, Pierre Salmon, spent much time in discussions with the king while he was intermittently psychotic. In an effort to find a cure for the king's illness, stabilize the turbulent political situation, and secure his own future, Salmon supervised the production of two distinct versions of the beautifully illuminated guidebooks to good kingship known as Pierre Salmon's ""Dialogues"". On 29 January 1393, a masked ball, which became known as the ""Bal des Ardents"""
"further scared the notables. On the boulevard du Temple, near the Place de la République, a ""volley gun"" composed of twenty-five gun barrels mounted on a wooden frame was fired on the king from the upstairs window of a house. The King was only slightly injured, while his sons, Ferdinand-Philippe, duc d'Orléans, Louis-Charles d'Orléans, duc de Nemours and François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville, escaped unharmed. However, Marshal Mortier and ten other persons were killed, while tens were injured (among which seven died in the following days). The conspirators, the adventurer Giuseppe Fieschi and two Republicans (Pierre Morey and Théodore Pépin)"
"the entertainments may seem ""very near to the bone"", in retrospect. The night after the wedding, a magnificent masked ball was held at the Petit-Bourbon, which included the performance of a ""pantomime tournoi"", called the ""paradise of love"". King Charles and his two brothers defended twelve angelic nymphs against the Huguenots. They despatched the Huguenots, led by Henry of Navarre, into a hell where, according to an observer, ""a great number of devils and imps were making infinite follery and noise"". The nymphs then danced a ballet. There followed combat between knights, accompanied by explosions of gunpowder. The king and"
"Masquerade ball A masquerade ball (or ""bal masqué"") is an event in which the participants attend in costume wearing a mask. (Compare the word ""masque""—a formal written and sung court pageant.) Less formal ""costume parties"" may be a descendant of this tradition. A masquerade ball usually encompasses music and dancing. These nighttime events are used for entertainment and celebrations. Masquerade balls were a feature of the Carnival season in the 15th century, and involved increasingly elaborate allegorical Royal Entries, pageants, and triumphal processions celebrating marriages and other dynastic events of late medieval court life. The ""Bal des Ardents"" (""""Burning Men's"
"According to Brantôme, King Henry II of France (ruled 1547–1559) was an excellent player of ' and ' (a form of that eventually developed into tennis and other raquet sports). Louis XIV (ruled 1661–1715), who hated ', was on the other hand enthusiastic about ', and the playing court in the gardens of Tuileries Palace was enlarged during his reign. The game was still played in France, in the areas of Montpellier and Aix-en-Provence, into the early 20th century, before the First World War. An educational institution in Montpellier, College Jeu de Mail, still bears the name of this game."
"the annual calendar during the 1950s, with one early show featuring a ""three-hour spectacular of five tableaux, directed by Stuart Chaney"", [depicting] a 12th-century scene of troubadours at the court of Eleanor of Aquitane, Henry VIII's meeting at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, Louis XIV at Versailles, and a fashion show of 40 creations by Dior, Fath, Balmain, Desses, and Givenchy"". French stars Juliette Greco, Jean Sablon, Beatrice Lillie, John Loder and many others were flown over for the ball. The 1957 event was attended by some 1300 guests, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Senator John"
"at the Château de Bagatelle, recently erected at great expense by the king's brother, the Count of Artois. ""Bagatelle"" from Italian ""bagattella"", signifies 'a trifle', 'a decorative thing'. The highlight of the party was a new table game featuring a slender table and cue sticks, which players used to shoot ivory balls up an inclined playfield. The game was dubbed ""bagatelle"" by the count and shortly after swept through France. The name Bagatelle was first used to describe such a game in 1819. Its dimensions soon standardised at 7 feet by 21 inches. Some French soldiers carried their favorite bagatelle"
"meeting point to celebrate balls, where many men dressed as women. Several studies have not found similar phenomena in the judicial cases in Aragon, Catalonia, the Basque Country or Valencia, even though in the Valencian case there are evidences of a subculture and a possible gay ghetto. In Spain, cross-dressing was socially only allowed for carnival, when even those closest to the king could dress as women. On the other hand, in France, during Louis XIV's reign, no ball was complete without cross-dressers. By the end of the 17th century, there was a completely developed gay subculture in London, with"
"game, stooping down to measure the points. After the Romans, the stone balls were replaced by wooden balls. In the Middle Ages, Erasmus referred to the game as ""globurum,"" but it became commonly known as ""boules"" (i.e. 'balls'), and it was played throughout Europe. King Henry III of England banned the playing of the game by his archers — he wanted them to be practicing archery, not playing boules. In the 14th century, Charles IV and Charles V of France forbade the sport to commoners; only in the 17th century was the ban lifted. By the 19th century, in England"
"ball was struck with the palm of the hand in a game called ""jeu de paume"". Rackets were introduced to the game in the early 16th century. This original version of tennis, now called ""real tennis"", was mostly played indoors and popular among the royalty and gentry, while a crude outdoor version called ""longue paume"" was played by the populace. The prominence of the game declined in the 17th and 18th centuries, although there are sporadic mentions of a ""long tennis"" or ""field tennis"" version in the second half of the 18th century. Between 1858 and 1873 several people in"
"men and invade the masquerade celebrating the remarriage of Isabeau's lady-in-waiting, Catherine de Fastaverin. This came to be known as the ""Bal des Ardents"". Charles was almost killed and four of the dancers burned to death, when a spark from a torch brought by Orléans lit one of the dancer's costumes. The disaster undermined confidence in Charles' capacity to rule. Parisians considered it proof of courtly decadence and threatened to rebel against the more powerful members of the nobility. The public's outrage forced the King and Orléans, whom a contemporary chronicler accused of attempted regicide and sorcery, into offering penance"
"events. All they lacked were color; all the fireworks were white or pale gold, until the introduction from China of colored fireworks in the 18th century. The most popular sport for French nobles in the first part of the 17th century was the ""jeu de paume"", a form of handball or tennis, which reached its peak of popularity under Henry IV, when there were more than 250 courts throughout the city. Louis XIV, however, preferred billiards, and the number of courts for ""jeu de paume"" dropped to 114. The owners of the courts found an original and effective strategy to"
"tardy dawn of vengeance"". Many public balls were ""bals des victimes"" at which young aristocrats who had lost loved ones to the guillotine danced in mourning dress or wore black armbands, greeting one another with violent movements of the head as if in decapitation. A ball held at the Hôtel Thellusson on the rue de Provence in the 9th arrondissement of Paris restricted its guest list to the grown children of the guillotined. The Merveilleuses scandalized Paris with dresses and tunics modeled after the ancient Greeks and Romans, cut of light or even transparent linen and gauze. Sometimes so revealing"
"Bals des victimes The Bals des victimes, or victims' balls, were balls that were said to have been put on by dancing societies after the Reign of Terror. To be admitted to these societies and balls, one had to be a near relative of someone who had been guillotined during the Terror. The balls came to prominence after the death of Robespierre, supposedly first being held in early 1795 and first mentioned in popular writing in 1797. While anecdotal evidence attests to the balls' occurrence, and generations of French and non-French historians described them and accepted them as fact, some"
"Jeu de paume Jeu de paume (; ) is a ball-and-court game that originated in France. It was an indoor precursor of tennis played without racquets, though these were eventually introduced. It is a former Olympic sport, and has the oldest ongoing annual world championship in sport, first established over 250 years ago. Originally spelled jeu de paulme, now it is called ""real tennis"" , court tennis (US) or courte paume (France). In the earliest versions of the game, the players hit the ball with their hands, as in palla, volleyball, or certain varieties of pelota. ""Jeu de paume"", or"
"court and vowed that they would not disband before the proclamation of a formal Constitution for France. ""Le Jeu de Paume"" is a moral ode published in 1791 by André Chénier. In the 1981 film ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", socialite Charles Smithson (Jeremy Irons) is seen playing ""jeu de paume"" in London. The 2014 Whitney Biennial exhibition featured the premiere of the stop-motion film ""Jeu de Paume"" by Joshua Mosley. Jeu de paume Jeu de paume (; ) is a ball-and-court game that originated in France. It was an indoor precursor of tennis played without racquets, though these were eventually"
"a series of exercises and games on horseback. These events were designed to replace the tournament, which had been banned after 1559 when King Henry II was killed in a jousting accident. In the new, less dangerous version, riders usually had to pass their lance through the interior of a ring, or strike mannequins with the heads of Medusa, Moors and Turks. A grand ""carrousel"" was held on June 5–6, 1662 to celebrate the birth of the ""Dauphin"", the son of Louis XIV. It was held on the square separating the Louvre from the Tuileries Palace, which afterwards became known"
"The Yew Tree Ball The Yew Tree Ball (Fr: ""Le bal des if"") was a masked ball held in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on the night of 25–26 February 1745. Fifteen thousand people attended. King Louis XV and several of his gentlemen courtiers appeared dressed as topiary yew trees. The ball is notorious for being the venue in which the king made contact with Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson. He had first seen her while hunting at Senart. On 14 September 1745, Poisson was officially presented to the Court as the Marquise de Pompadour. She became the king’s official mistress until"
"from chapter 24 [""The Siege of La Rochelle"" ] onwards, 12 chapters after the ball had taken place). Also, the ""Ballet de cour"" is described as a simple ball (with the men dancing with the ladies), not as a court spectacle which not only included dance, but acting and singing as well. Ballet de la Merlaison The Ballet de la Merlaison is a ballet de cour first performed on 15 March 1635 at the Château de Chantilly, during the reign of Louis XIII. It is the most popular ballet performed during the reign of Louis XIII, which marked an important"
"and actors, these three giants of men worked together to create many beautiful pieces of art for King Louis XIV. French ballet In the French courts during the 17th Century, ballet first begins to flourish with the help of several important men: King Louis XIV, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Pierre Beauchamps, and Molière. The combination of different talents and passions of these four men shaped ballet to what it is today. Louis XIV, the King of France from 1643 to 1715, was a ballet enthusiast from a young age. In fact his birth was celebrated with the ""Ballet de la Felicite"" in"
"Joan was present at the infamous ""Bal des Ardents"" given by Queen Isabeau, wife of the Duke of Berry's nephew King Charles, on 28 January 1393. During this, the King and five nobles dressed up as wildmen, clad ""in costumes of linen cloth sewn onto their bodies and soaked in resinous wax or pitch to hold a covering of frazzled hemp,"" and proceeded to dance about chained together. At length, the King became separated from the others, and made his way to the Duchess, who jokingly refused to let him wander off again until he told her his name. When"
"Banquet"" shows a member of the Chinese Imperial court swinging what appears to be a golf club at a small ball with the aim of sinking it into a hole. The game is thought to have been introduced into Europe during the Middle Ages. Another early game that resembled modern golf was known as cambuca in England and chambot in France. The Persian game chaugán is another possible ancient origin. In addition, kolven (a game involving a ball and curved bats) was played annually in Loenen, Netherlands, beginning in 1297, to commemorate the capture of the assassin of Floris V,"
"an earlier ball game played around the 12th century in France which involved hitting a ball with a bare hand and later with a glove. By the 16th century, the glove had become a racquet, the game had moved to an enclosed playing area, and the rules had stabilized. Real tennis spread in popularity throughout royalty in Europe, reaching its peak in the 16th century. In 1437 at the Blackfriars, Perth, the playing of tennis indirectly led to the death of King James I of Scotland, when the drain outlet, through which he hoped to escape assassins, had been blocked"
"evidence of his mental instability. After his death, the game went out of fashion, and for a century the game was only remembered by a small number of enthusiasts such as the Marquis de Biévre. The game had its golden age during the reign of Louis XV — among the upper classes people owned baleros made of ivory. Actors also sometimes appeared with them in scenes. The game was very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions the game early in his ""Confessions"" when stating his reservations about idle talk and hands, saying ""If ever I went"