Monsieur X: The incredible story of the most audacious gambler in history

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Patrice des Moutis was a handsome, charming and well-educated Frenchman with an aristocratic family, a respectable insurance business, and a warm welcome in the smartest Parisian salons. He was also a compulsive gambler and illegal bookie.

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I recognise communication with Mr X was not straightforward but am not persuaded the council took sufficient action to advise or support Mr X, or to ensure he understood what was required to progress his homelessness application. The council’s delays and communication failings have meant that Mr X has potentially had to live in his car, separated from his family for longer than he otherwise would have.”A man left homeless was forced to sleep in a car for almost a year with his 16-year-old son after Liverpool Council failed to deal with their housing issue. There is no record of any further action until February this year when the council closed the case. This was done automatically as it had been incomplete for more than three months. Mr X told the council he had been sleeping in his car for three months and that his 16-year-old son sometimes had to sleep in the car with him. He said he had been removed from the housing register and could not rejoin and could not rent a property privately as he received Universal Credit.

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Hercule François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon (1555–1584), was the first notable member of the royalty to assume the title without the use of an adjoining proper name. [2] In 1576, Monsieur pressured his brother King Henry III of France into signing the Edict of Beaulieu and effectively ending the Fifth Religious War of France. The resulting peace became popularly known as the Peace of Monsieur. [3] For over seventy years, from 1701 to 1774, the title had no living representatives in the French court, as Philippe of France, died in 1701; Louis XV was the youngest of the sons of Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy and at the time of his accession to the throne in 1715 had no brothers. [ citation needed]

The title was restored in 1775 for Louis Stanislas Xavier, Count of Provence, the oldest surviving brother of the reigning Louis XVI and the future Louis XVIII. After his coronation in 1814, the title passed to Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, his younger brother. [6] Charles Philippe, who led the ultras during the Bourbon Restoration and became King Charles X in 1824, [7] was the last royal sibling to officially hold the title of Monsieur. His successor, Louis-Philippe I, the next and last king to rule France, had lost both his brothers, Louis Charles and Antoine Philippe, many years before he succeeded to the throne. In a statement, a Liverpool Council spokesperson said: “We are sorry for the distress that was caused in this case and have abided by the recommendations of the Local Government Ombudsman.” The final chapters have a sense as serving as a naming exercise of long-dead Mediterranean mafia types, and so the book limps a little towards the end. The report outlined how Mr X had lived in the city since 2012, but did not speak or read English, relying on his sons and brother to translate for him. As a result, this made communication with the council difficult.

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Find sources: "Monsieur"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( October 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In modern French, monsieur (plural messieurs) is used as a courtesy title of respect, an equivalent of English " mister" or "sir". [2] It can be abbreviated in M. (plural MM.), Mssr. (plural Mssrs.), [9] and rarely M r (plural M rs), but never Mr., which is only for Mister. Patrice des Moutis was a handsome, charming and well educated Frenchman with an aristocratic family, a respectable insurance business, and a warm welcome in the smartest Parisian salons. He was also a compulsive gambler and illegal bookie. This led the father-of-four to get ill from sleeping in his car for eight months. Documents released by the ombudsman said the authority’s delays to resolve the issue - in which a teenage boy was also forced to sleep rough - caused “serious distress, uncertainty, and difficulties.” The council has since apologised. In June this year, Mr X made a formal complaint to the council. He also asked the Ombudsman to investigate his complaint who exercised discretion to consider Mr X’s complaint even though he had not completed the council’s complaints process.

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This true story of 1960s and 1970s French racing life through the lens of Patrice Des Moutis - named Monsieur X in court documents - as he took on the PMU, the monopoly betting pool provider who went to war with him, was quite enjoyable.