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Feb 2025
1h 26m

Episode 388 - The House of Védrines & Th...

Wondery | RedHanded
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This story of how a rich, aristocratic French family lost their fortunes, and their minds, to a painter-and-decorator conman, unravels like Dan Brown mystery. Secret treasures, Masonic plots, kidnap and torture - the de Védrines family were desperate to hold onto their ancestral chateau; only to have everything ripped away from them by a Crowley-obsessed ch ... Show More
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