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| Picture No | 10640147 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Description | Madame Henriette Caillaux |
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Madame Henriette Caillaux (nee Raynouard, 1874-1943), wife of French finance minster Joseph Caillaux, recently on trial for the fatal shooting of Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro, for damaging Caillaux's reputation as a politician. Her defence lawyer argued that she had committed a crime of passion rather than premeditated murder, and she was acquitted after a trial lasting eight days.
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| Source | Photograph by Manuel in The Bystander, 5 August 1914, p310 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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