The Trial of Madame Caillaux
Early in the evening of 16 March 1914 Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a powerful French cabinet minister, paid an unexpected call to her husband's most implacable enemy, Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette. Madame Caillaux wore an expensive fur coat with a large fur muff to protect her hands from the wintry cold. Concealed inside the muff was a Browning automatic. After murmuring a few words, she drew her weapon and fired six shots at point-blank range. Calmette slumped to the floor, fatally...
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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue11Henriette Caillaux and the Crime of Passion132Joseph Caillaux: The Politics of Personality433Henriette Caillaux: Femininity, Feminism, and the Real Woman894Berthe Gueydan: The Politics of Divorce1335Judge Albanel: Masculinity, Honor, and the Duel1696Gaston Calmette: The Power and Venality of the Press208Epilogue240Notes249Index293
