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Charles V, in his last days, was aware of it. "Unfortunately, the child is not intelligent", did he say about the dolphin Charles, who would succeed him Az Charles VI.

Charles V, called the wise, had not realized how the regency of his brothers would be disastrous. The three men ousted the king's devoted and competent advisors, and literally crushed the Country with taxes to fill their own pockets.

The fact that Charles VI waited untill being almost 20 years old to end the Regency take power got on his brother Louis' nerves. But Louis already had realized his brother's psychological and mental weakness.

But nobody could have foreseen what would happen on the 5th day of october 1392.

This day, the king became crazy, like possessed, and killed several men. He tried to kill his brother. He killed the 2 more men that tried to disarm him and broke his head on a tree after running his horse into the woods.

It was an unprecedented drama that shocked everybody. The new king was Charles VI's only son : young baby Charles born a few weeks earlier, now Charles VII.

His uncle Louis duke of Orleans, made sure to be the regent, securing a deal with his own uncle John of Berry to get his support against the other too ambitious and too powerful uncle, Philip of Burgundy.
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