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...imagination six years before, after they had found the nude body of a White Russian countess lying in the Paris-Brussels road. The countess, who had been strangled with a nylon stocking, was known to have left Brussels with a young French medical officer named Count Vernier de Miraumont. The police finally found the man practicing gynecology in occupied Germany. They soon learned that he was neither a count, a doctor, an officer nor a Frenchman. He was a Belgian metal worker named Léon Meurant, and he had a long police record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Droll Fellow | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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