Henriette Caillaux

Henriette Caillaux ( born December 5, 1874 in Paris as Henriette Raynouard; † January 29, 1943 ) was a French Socialist and the second wife of the previous Prime Minister Joseph Caillaux. Caillaux shot Gaston Calmette, the editor in chief of Figaro. Your acquitted due to temporary insanity in the subsequent process sparked a scandal in France.

She met her future husband at a time to know when Caillaux was still married to his first wife. While her husband served as finance minister of France, he was sharply attacked in a press campaign of Figaro. Calmette, the editor of the newspaper, became the property of early love letters from Henriette Caillaux before her marriage, which he threatened to publish. Then entered Caillaux Henriette on March 16, 1914, the office of the chief editor and fired several shots at Calmette, who died shortly thereafter at a hospital in Neuilly.

She was immediately arrested and brought to justice. Your lawyer was Fernand- Gustave - Gaston Labori. The trial ended in acquittal on 28 July 1914. Reasoning of the Court was the " acute psychiatric emergency " by Henriette Caillaux and that her " uncontrollable female emotions " were attributed by the jury in accordance with the then-wife image. The verdict sparked heated controversy and protests in France.

References in popular culture

The fact Henriette Caillaux was filmed several times, as already emerged in 1918 under the direction of Richard Stanton, the film The Caillaux Case. 1968 a version for the German television was produced under the title of Madame Caillaux. In 1985, the film L'Affaire Caillaux was produced for French television. The case is mentioned several times and interpreted variously by the protagonists in Ken Follett 's novel overthrow the Titans from 2010.