Perpetrator in The Humbert Affair
Born Thérèse Daurignac at Aussonne; birth given as 10 September 1855 or 1856. Convicted in 1903; she was still alive in Paris in the late 1930s and her death date is not established.
1902–1903 · 65 avenue de la Grande-Armée, Paris · Convicted
For twenty years Paris lent fortunes against an American millionaire's legacy locked in Thérèse Humbert's safe. In May 1902 they opened it. Read the case.
Dated events
Thérèse Daurignac marries Frédéric Humbert at Beauzelle, near Toulouse.
Gustave Humbert, her father-in-law, serves as Minister of Justice.
The Humbert safe is opened by court order and found to be nearly empty; the family has fled.
Frédéric Humbert dies in Paris, still married to Thérèse.