Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreed to one last weekend together. As "Mr. & Mrs. Pierre Delaitre of Paris," they registered a fortnight ago at the Ritz, the staid old Victorian hostelry on Piccadilly. Their room was No. 223-one of the best in the house, painted a glowing pink and with a Louis XIV...
...maid got no reply when she knocked at the door of Room 223. Police broke it down. They found the room a shambles, the bedclothes scattered. Some time in the night, Pierre Delaitre had strangled Eileen and slashed her throat with a razor. She died on the Louis XIV bed. Pierre had cut his own throat, but not deeply enough. Bleeding heavily, he had scribbled an incoherent note telling of his anguish at losing the woman he could not live without, then tied one end of a 9-ft. rope around his neck. With the other end secured...
Scandalized and worried at what some of its titled clientele might think, the Ritz sealed Room 223, destroyed the Louis XIV bed, had the numerals 223 removed from the door and the number expunged from the hotel registry...
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Some collectors pay special prices for African tribal warriors, ancient Greeks or Roman legionaries. One specialist can proudly assemble a dramatic tableau of the rape of the Sabine women. But mostly the Paris trade is in old soldiers of Louis XIII, XIV, XV and the First Empire...