Therese Humbert: Con-woman.

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Therese Humbert conned all of Parisian high society no less than three times, and each story was even less believable than the one before it. So why did learned folks buy her nonsense?

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0:00.0	featuring Joe Sweeney from Thinking Side Race Podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
0:09.2	This is The Shocking Details.
0:12.8	Hi there.
0:13.5	Welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.
0:17.0	I'm Joe, joined as always by Vincent Caldoni.
0:21.1	And we're back with another fascinating story.
0:23.6	This one is a, we've been doing some more contemporary stuff lately, so I decided to reach
0:28.2	back into the Wayback Machine and dredge up something from way back when.
0:33.2	This is Lefer-Umbier, which was a massive scandal in France around the turn of the 20th century, which...
0:41.5	A pretty strange one, too.
0:42.6	It is.
0:43.0	And it rocked the French financial markets and bankrupted thousands of people.
0:47.7	There was a huge scandal.
0:49.4	And so we're going to talk about it.
0:50.8	It's because it's a weird, it's kind of a twisted little story.
0:53.4	Would you not agree?
0:54.2	Yeah, I would totally agree with you on that.
0:55.6	It's pretty weird.
0:57.2	Yeah, it is.
0:58.0	Okay, so let's get rolling here.
1:00.5	Let's do it.
1:01.5	Yes.
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