Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Paris VIIe, Île-de-France, France || Hôtel Beauharnais

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Petiot's neighbors in Rue Le Sueur complained to police of a foul stench in the area and of large amounts of smoke billowing from a chimney of the house. Fearing a chimney fire, the police summoned firemen, who entered the house and found a roaring fire in a coal stove in the basement.
(11 March 1944)

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Hôtel Beauharnais

VIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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Monday 7th of November 1938 (x) — German ambassador in Paris Ernst vom Rath is shot five times by Herschel Grynszpan aka .
Vom Rath died two days later in hospital. Grynszpan was theorized to have been acquainted with vom Rath before the shooting. According to this theory vom Rath was homosexual and had met Grynszpan in the Paris bar Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Vom Rath had supposedly promised to use his influence to legalize Grynszpan's French residency. When vom Rath reneged on his promise Grynszpan went to the embassy and shot him.