The Masked Ball Incident of the French King

http://expositions.bnf.fr/flamands/grand/fla_228.htm

They called it the Bal des Ardents, not just because french sounds pretty, which it does, but because of what this phrase means.
"Now, don't look it up! Listen, be patient!"
You're burning with anticipation, aren't you?
The Queen's favored lady-in-waiting's wedding was passed through the night in joy. Everyone was so excited for the queen had personally prepared a party afterward. The king was excited too for the afterward party but for different reasons.  The king had arranged a prank. He put on a long linen flax coat and so did five of his servants, too* so that they appeared to look like "savages." They ordered for the lamps to be put one side of the room so they wouldn't catch fire. Later, the Duke of Orleans, the king's distracted brother forgot to move the lamps, and held one of them too close to one of the flax costumes and set it aflame.  Eventually the fire spread to all the people in costumes, and the screams were horrible, at least this is how it is reported. They tried to extinguish it, though their efforts hardly did anything. When the weak Queen saw that king was on fire, she fainted, as one man ablaze screamed "Save the King, save the king!"  The Duchess of Berry threw her dresses' train the king. One of the men in costume (Evan) had jumped into a barrels of water used to wash dishes, he saved but still a little soapy.  Only that man and the king survived of the men in costume.

See even people from all centuries can party at all hours of the night, just some don't end up well.






Sources:

Volume 2 of Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries  by Jean Froissant, Sainte-Palaye, Thomas Johnes, William Smith, 1889, Oxford University, http://books.google.com/books?id=GC4OAAAAQAAJ&dq=jean+froissart+chronicles+william+smith+two&source=gbs_navlinks_s

*The servants were Count de Joingy, Charles or Aymand de Poitiers,  Evan de Foix, and Hugonin de Gensay