Jeu qui trop dure ne vault rien, Tant va le pot à l'eau qui brise. - Charles, Duke of Orléans

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Jeu qui trop dure ne vault rien,
Tant va le pot à l'eau qui brise.

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About Charles, Duke of Orléans

(24 November 1394 – 5 January 1465) was from 1407, following the murder of his father, . He was also , and of Blois, , and the inheritor of in Italy via his mother Valentina Visconti. He is now remembered as an accomplished medieval poet, owing to the more than five hundred extant poems he produced, written in both French and English, during his 25 years spent as a prisoner of war and after his return to France.

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Native Name: Charles Ier d'Orléans
Alternative Names: Charles of Orléans
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