Sentence:  A British writer , Richard Haestier , in a book , Dead Men Tell Tales , recalls that in the turmoil preceding French Revolution the <WSD>body</WSD> of Henry /4 , , who had died nearly 180 years earlier , was torn to pieces by a mob . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)