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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 26601873, member: 128351&quot;]Charles VI, who signed &quot;the shameful treaty of Troyes&quot; (as old French history textbooks used to call it). This man was completely nuts, but history taught us it is not much of a problem for being head of state. </p><p>C. 1420, one day or one night, burglars broke into the Louvre. It wasn&#039;t yet the museum we know, it was a medieval fortress in the outskirts of Paris, but it already kept the precious regalia. The burglars stole the parade helmet of Charles VI, made of gilded copper with enamel. They broke it in 150 pieces to remove the gold plating, and discarded the pieces in the castle moat, where archaeologists found it in the 1980s. Because of the inscribed motto &quot;EN BIEN&quot;, this helmet was positively identified as the helmet of Charles VI. </p><p>The sad thing is that the Louvre&#039;s security didn&#039;t improve that much since the early 15th century... </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Casque_de_parade_de_Charles_VI_%28original%29.jpg/960px-Casque_de_parade_de_Charles_VI_%28original%29.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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