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In 1346 the English king Edward III laid siege to the French port of Calais. Eleven months later, Edward demanded the surrender of six of the town's leading men, or burghers, in return for sparing its citizens. The six men walked toward their fate wearing sackcloth and rope halters, but they were later spared through the intervention of the English queen, who feared that their deaths would bring bad luck to her unborn child.
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