Charles II of Navarre (1332-1387) -- 'Charles the Bad' -- met an unusual end, Fernand Braudel reminds us. ...
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"... doctors had enveloped him in a brandy-soaked sheet ... A servant held up a candle close to try to break one of the threads ..." ...
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Wikipedia comments: "His horrific death by burning was widely considered God's justice upon him."
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