Word: capete
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...Presidents of the Fourth Republic, two Emperors named Napoleon, 14 Presidents of the Third Republic (none now living), Vichy's Marshal Petain, and a string of kings ranging in power from the glorious days of Louis XIV, the Roi Soleil, to the hunted 10th century time of Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian line, who scarcely dared stir out of Paris for fear of being trounced by the powerful Count of Flanders and the proud Duke of Normandy...
When she became dissatisfied with her first husband, Louis VII, ("I thought to have married a king, but I find I have wed a monk"), Eleanor divorced him. Adding the Plantagenet tag to the Capet one she already possessed, she married Henry II of England, twelve years her junior. Her sons were Richard the Lion-Hearted and John Lackland...
...rebels, having lost most of their fanatical, hard-core Communist capetánios, pressed even children and old men into service. Said a Communist artillery commander who last week surrendered along with his Tommy-gun-toting mistress: "How could one have faith in an army of young boys and girls and of old men leaning on their sticks...
Rings on His Fingers. This band was led by a capetánios named Papouas, a onetime physical culture student in Athens who had joined ELAS during the German occupation. Papouas boasted that he had been a scourge of Thessaly and Roumelia for seven years. The name Papouas was a pseudonym-taken, he said, from a primitive tribe whose members wore rings on their fingers and toes and in their noses. Papouas had many rings, but he wore them only on his hands...
Smart, cold-blooded businessman though he is, Maney sometimes takes on flops, turns down successes. Last season he almost took on Madame Capet, which ran for seven performances, instead of Oscar Wilde, which ran for 247. He sets his income at $25,000 a year; Broadway sets it higher...