Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Charles was known for two things, gambling and fraud.

Though that wasn't always the case.

In the mid-19th century, Charles worked on the docs as an engineer and inventor.

One of his inventions, a device for regulating the speed of ship's propellers, sold for

5,000 francs.

With his newfound fortune, Charles moved to Paris, and that's where the trouble began.

He left his old life behind in favor of a new one, and along the way he discovered gambling.

He became addicted to the thrill, and having a few extra francs in his pocket made it easier

to get hooked.

But for as much as Charles loved to play the tables, he wasn't very good at it.

Eventually, the one-time investor went broke, so he turned to less than legal ways of feeding

the monkey on his back.

He convinced investors to finance a new railway he was building in Burke, Sumer, a commune

in the north of France.

Well, the railway never materialized, and when the courts demanded he answer for his deception,

neither did he.

He fled Paris for England, where he found new casinos to lose his money in.

When it was all gone, he started another con.

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