(14) If "pain" is bread, then...
is the woman the king's food taster and she's had the bread, realised its poisoned and is warning him before she passes out?
This is so close that I'll give it to you.
Apparantly, the French King invited some homeless folk into his palace, but one woman was so famished that when she arrived she dropped dead of starvation whilst screaming the word 'Pain' (Bread in French).
Iron was the first to cotton on to the French translation.
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