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Originally Posted by Anders
Right. Charles VI, sorry about that. I was thinking of Henry VI, who was also insane.
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The glass delusion (see Wikipedia) was quite a common form of madness in that period. It seems to have gone out of the zeitgeist now. As parodied by Bujold (
Brothers in Arms):
"The fifth Countess Vorkosigan was said to suffer from the periodic delusion that she was made of glass."
"What finally happened to her?" asked Elli in a tone of fascination.
"One of her irritated relations eventually dropped and broke her."
"The delusion was that intense?"
"It was off a twenty-meter-tall turret."