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Il prétendait être leur fils disparu : Le mystère Frédéric Bourdin - Old Thread
On October 18, 1997, at San Antonio Airport in Texas, a local television camera filmed a woman awaiting her son's arrival. She hadn't seen him in three years and had lived in agonizing uncertainty about whether he was alive or dead. When he finally appeared, she paused, then embraced him tightly. She believed it was her son, Nicolas Barclay, who had vanished at 13 and was supposedly found in Spain after three years. However, the man she was holding was not Nicolas Barclay; it was Frédéric Bourdin, a 23-year-old Frenchman. Bourdin had successfully infiltrated the family, convincing the American embassy, Spanish social services, and even the FBI to issue him a passport under the name of a child he had never been, nor even met. He would live in their home for five months, sleeping in the missing son's bedroom, attending a Texan high school, and making friends. What makes this story particularly astonishing is his motive: he didn't do it for money, but simply to experience, for a few weeks, what it felt like to have a loving family. Bourdin, later dubbed "the Chameleon," usurped over 500 identities across Europe. Behind these actions, there might even be an unsolved murder.
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Il a Osé Défier Isaac Newton en Duel (il est mort pendu)
This video explores a little-known aspect of Isaac Newton's life: his intense and methodical pursuit of William Chaloner, a master counterfeiter, in the late 17th century. Far from the image of a serene scholar, Newton, then Warden of the Royal Mint, dedicated years to dismantling Chaloner's criminal empire, employing tactics that mirrored the precision of his scientific endeavors. The narrative begins by setting the scene of England in the 1690s, a nation teetering on the brink of economic collapse. This dire situation was exacerbated by two major monetary crises: "clipping" and "exportation." Clipping involved the widespread practice of shaving slivers of silver from the edges of coins, significantly reducing their intrinsic value. Simultaneously, the silver content of newly minted coins was often worth more on the continent than their face value in England, leading to a mass exodus of good money. Compounding these issues, a significant percentage of circulating currency was counterfeit. This economic turmoil crippled the government, preventing it from even paying its soldiers during wartime.
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