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Charles, Duc de Bourbon, a powerful enemy of François I. He was killed while heading the assault on Rome. (1527.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.