Word: naundorff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis de Bourbon" is a portly old man of 65, blind, living outside Paris at Sannois. His sympathizers believe him to be a descendant of one Karl Wilhelm Naundorff who appeared in Berlin in 1810 announcing that he was the Dauphin. Herr Naundorff explained that he had not died in a Paris prison 15 years before as the world believed, but had escaped in the bottom of a laundry basket...
...Herr Naundorff's descendant interested one old lady, a Mme Heitz, so deeply in his case that she advanced him sums aggregating $40,000, always addressed him as "My Liege Lord and Dear White Knight." In return "Louis de Bourbon" issued notes "payable in the near future" when he should have regained his rightful place as France's ruler. Last month Mme Heitz went to a medium who revealed that her King was misappropriating the funds she had lent him. Forthwith she demanded a reckoning...