A wax figure of King Charles VI of France is offered at the shrine of Saint Aquaire, known for curing madness, 1390s. Shrine of St. Aquaire. Presentation of the waxen figure of the king. Woodcut after an illuminated manuscript from Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV, George Routledge, London, 1868.

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