Answer | Crossword Clue |
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ALFONSE | Charles defeated him in 1998 |
DOLE | Clinton defeated him in 1996 |
ALTON | Teddy defeated him in 1904 |
OMA | Charles kayoed him in '51. |
bluebeard | A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400รป40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him) |