CHARLES VI, THE MAD KING WHO BELIEVED HE WAS MADE OF GLASS?

DARK LEGEND OF THE KING WHO FEARED SHATTERING Can a king, anointed by God, live trapped in his own MIND, fearing his body might break like GLASS? In medieval France, CHARLES VI, crowned in 1380 at age 11, bore a crown that crushed his soul. The Hundred Years’ War raged: Crécy (1346) and Poitiers (1356) left thousands of French corpses in the mud, while Armagnac and Burgundian nobles stabbed each other for power. Charles, a cultured youth who played the lute, promised GLORY, but in 1392, in the forest of Le Mans, his mind shattered. A leper shouted prophecies, a lance fell, and the king, with wild eyes, slaughtered his own knights, believing in betrayal. 🗡️ From then on, convinced he was made of GLASS, he ordered his clothes reinforced with iron, sitting rigid on his throne, fearing a deadly embrace. The court, amid opulent banquets and peasant famines, whispered: curse or demons? Medieval physicians, with bloodletting and amulets, only worsened his torment. The “Bal des Ardents” of 1393, where nobles burned due to a reckless torch, marked his reign with fire and tragedy. 🔥 While Paris endured looting, Charles, KING and PRISONER of his madness, lived in a palace of shadows. His life, forgotten among chronicles, was a cry of human FRAGILITY, an echo of a kingdom on the brink of the abyss. 👑