The Trial of Madame Caillaux
A reconstruction of the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a French cabinet minister who murdered one of her husband's enemies - "Le Figaro" editor Gaston Calmette - on the eve of World War I. The study draws a portrait of Belle Epoque politics and cultural mores.
Print Book, English, 1992
Universicy of California Press, Ltd, Berkeley, 1992
296 : ill.
9780520084285, 0520084284
1151698143
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Henriette Caillaux and the Crime of Passion 2. Joseph Caillaux: The Politics of Personality 3. Henriette Caillaux: Femininity, Feminism, and the Real Woman 4. Berthe Gueydan: The Politics of Divorce 5. Judge Albanel: Masculinity, Honor, and the Duel 6. Gaston Calmette: The Power and Venality of the Press Epilogue Notes Index