Another very unusual choice of iconography. Balaam was a seer who was called upon by King Balak, an opponent of the Israelites, to curse the invaders. After initially refusing the King's demands he eventually agreed - but each time he tried to issue his curse he was unable to do so and it came out as a blessing instead (Num 22-24). Given how rare this story is in medieval art, it is doubly frustrating that we don't have enough of the original window left to reconstruct it's narrative structure. I suspect that the current panels 05 and 06 were originally in the lowest register since this confrontation between the frustrated king and the unwilling seer is about as close as the story of Balaam gets to a denouement. It is unfortunate that the most famous episode in the story - the angel stopping Balaam's ass in its tracks and the beast's subsequent speech of complaint at his master's beatings - is one of the panels that was lost. Indeed, were it not for the inclusion of a titulus in two of the panels (one refitted in reverse by a clumsy restorer), it is unlikely that one would ever have deduced the subject of this window.

Only half of the 14 panels in this window survived the Huguenot sacking of the city and most of those that did survive only in fragmentary form, with the usual eccentric array of stopgaps and later intrusions. The seven missing panels were replaced in the early 1940's by Francis Chigot of Limoges, with his typical disregard for historical context.