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Royal Garbage Fight
Few, however, could rival the wild court fetes of France’s King Francis I. In 1521, the high-spirited king learned about a nearby Twelfth Night party where a courtier had been made bean king. King Francis jokingly decided to challenge his royal rival and with his court followers besieged the house.
Revelers inside counterattacked by throwing “a prodigious quantity of snowballs, eggs and apples.” In the melee, a burning log thrown out the window hit the king in the face.
Though seriously wounded, King Francis refused to punish the offender because he blamed himself for leading the hijinks.
One historian reports that the king grew a beard to cover his scar, thus popularizing beards at Court. □ f
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