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On August 25th 1870, as Paris was preparing to resist the siege of the Prussian army, the Marquis of Hertford, Lord of England, died in his Chateau de Bagatelle near Paris. As a childless bachelor, he left behind a colossal fortune and a most extraordinary art collection fit...