"War and Peace" character who determines through numerology that he is destined to assassinate Napoleon (6)

I believe the answer is:

pierre

(Other definitions for pierre that I've seen before include "See 17" , "One colouring cloth" , "Frenchman" , "Peter, to the French" , "French boy's name" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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