Gaston Calmette

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Gaston Calmette

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Joseph Caillaux
Gaston Calmette, editor of the influential Le Figaro, led a press campaign against him. When Calmette threatened to publish love letters between Caillaux and his mistress, who was now Madame Caillaux, she fatally shot him. The trial—in which she was acquitted—dominated French public life and…
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Gaston Calmette, editor of the influential Le Figaro, led a press campaign against him. When Calmette threatened to publish love letters between Caillaux and his mistress, who was now Madame Caillaux, she fatally shot him. The trial—in which she was acquitted—dominated French public life and…
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Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori
…murder (March 16, 1914) of Gaston Calmette, editor of the journal Le Figaro. She shot Calmette to death for charging her husband, the minister of finance, with partiality in office and for publishing her private correspondence with Caillaux.
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…murder (March 16, 1914) of Gaston Calmette, editor of the journal Le Figaro. She shot Calmette to death for charging her husband, the minister of finance, with partiality in office and for publishing her private correspondence with Caillaux.
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