Thérèse Humbert
Deceased Person
1856 – 1918
Who was Thérèse Humbert?
Thérèse Humbert was a French female fraudster, who pretended to be an heir of an imaginary American millionaire Robert Crawford.
Humbert was born Thérèse Daurignac, a peasant girl in Aussonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France. As a child, she once convinced her friends to pool their jewelry so that she could fool others into believing she was wealthy. She married Frédéric Humbert, son of the mayor of Toulouse. Soon after, she began to tell a tale that she had received an unusual inheritance.
Humbert claimed that in 1879, when she was in a train, she heard groans from the next compartment. She entered into it by climbing along the outside of the train. There she found a man who was having a heart attack. When she had helped him with her smelling salts, the man told he was an American millionaire named Robert Henry Crawford. He was eternally grateful and would reward her some day. Two years later in 1881, she received a letter that stated that Crawford had died and made her beneficiary of his will. The will stated that the Humberts were to look after the family fortune in a safe that should remain sealed until her younger sister Marie was old enough to marry one of Crawford's two nephews, Henry Crawford.
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- Born
- 1856
Aussonne - Also known as
- Therese Humbert
- Thérèse Daurignac
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Lived in
- Madrid
(1902/05/09 - 1902/12/27)
- Madrid
- Died
- 1918
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on July 23, 2013
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