"HAVE A FOOT IN THE GRAVE"
Historical origin of the expression
Tuesday, March 22, 1547. François 1er reign over France and suffers from gout. Of course, the heady excesses of wine and tasty food is no stranger to this evil.
The doctor of the king is called to his bedside as his Majesty suffers and can not even put on his boot as his big toe is swollen and painful.
- Majesty, you will have to make arrangements!
- Plague of the plans, Sir, my doctor! I love good food and can not do without!
- This is the plan or so ...
- Or what, sir my doctor?
- Oh, Your Majesty, I found a remedy in an Arabic book that the Grand Mufti of Constantinople offered me after that I should have cured the plague!
- Devil, our cousin, the Grand Mufti knows about medicine?
- Not Majesty but some doctors have very good reputation. It is said that even the best of them, the general Ahmed Ben Oujda is able to heal the sick just by looking in your eyes! If I think this precious book, he advises to surround the sore foot with bandages soaked in water flowing from a cemetery!
The king was cured of this very unorthodox, which was normal for a cure and Arabic, my faith, he healed in a very short time. The doctor of the Grand Mufti was right!
What the story does not say is that a few days after his miraculous cure, the king would die for no apparent reason ...
The king's physician was sentenced to death, executed as a regicide, that is to say he was quartered and his body was burned!
Only a few years later, during the reign of Henry IV that the court jester, Nicolas Joubert, Sieur d'Angoulevent, dared to claim that the first good French had one foot in the falls prior to his whole!
Preview chronicles Robert Dupin
Viscount of Flanders and Artois,
French astrologer and historian
(1604-1666)
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