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The trial of Madame Caillaux

Edward Berenson recounts the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a powerful French cabinet minister, who murdered her husband's enemy Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette, in March 1914, on the eve of World War I. In analyzing this momentous event, Berenson draws a fascinating portrait of Belle Epoque politics and culture
eBook, English, ©1992
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1992
Biographies
1 online resource
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Henriette Caillaux and the crime of passion
Joseph Caillaux : the politics of personality
Henriette Caillaux : femininity, feminism, and the real woman
Berthe Gueydan : the politcis of divorce
Jodge Alnael : masculinity, honor, and the duel
Gason Calmette : the power and venality of the press
English