The plume of Henri IV caused the death of a marshal

In 1800, the abbot H. M. Garnesson claimed that the marshal de Biron was killed by a cannonball at the siege of Épernay in 1592 for having worn the royal plume as a joke. This apocryphal anecdote claimed that the marshal had thus drawn upon himself the shots that were actually targeting the sovereign. In reality, Henri IV was not present at this tragic event that occurred at Épernay.