[Sca-cooks] Flaming Nobles was Re: Flaming Subtleties

[James Prescott]

At 06:56 -0500 2005-03-15, Daniel  Phelps wrote:
>  Was written:
>
>>  Since people are lighting and heating their homes with open flame, I'm not
>>  sure that they would worry TOO much about a flaming dish.  Also, I have
>>  learned the hard way that a single spark often is not enough to burn
>>  charcloth  (especially made for burning), so I expect it would take a bit
>  of
>>  doing to set your average table setting/tabe cloth on fire.
>>
>  I've not been following this thread but has anyone mentioned that famous
>  incident in the French court where in three, or was it four, high ranking
>  nobles were "accidentially" burned to death when their "wildmen of the
>  woods" costumes caught fire?
>
>  Daniel


1393.  At the famous 'Bal des Ardents' the King and five others
were dressed as wild men, their costumes caught fire, and four of
the King's companions were horribly burned to death.


Thorvald