pour voux, bill:

The queen who reputedly
took lovers for three
days, and then had them
hurled into the Seine,
was Jeanne of Navarre
according to one
tradition, or Margaret of
Burgundy (wife of Louis
X) according to another.
The apocryphal story of
the philosopher Buridan
(c.1295-c.1385) and how
he arranged for a barge
of hay to be stationed by
fellow-students under the
window or balcoiny from
which he was to be flung,
was much appreciated
and elaborated from the
14th to 19th centuries.