Show signet ring ta has record of disaster after its use I 1 few rings have been connected with more misfortune than the famous signet ring of karl the french pretender whose legal battle for the throne in 1833 ended in exile says colliers before departing he gave the ring to his lawyer jules favre who as french foreign minister in 1871 employed it to seal the disastrous armistice of the franco prussian war favre later presented the ring to clemenceau and he used it to seal the ill fated treaty of versailles |