Note 150
From Chapter 49 of the Decline & Fall

Yet, personally, Charles IV. must not be considered as a Barbarian. After his education at Paris, he recovered the use of the Bohemian, his native, idiom; and the emperor conversed and wrote with equal facility in French, Latin, Italian, and German (Struvius, p. 615, 616.). Petrarch always represents him as a polite and learned prince.

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