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Accused, Stand Up

, by Caroline Pigozzi: Photos and Crimes

The invention of photography radically changed judicial history.

Thanks to this process, traces could be kept of the most significant episodes of the major trials.

At least until 1954, when cameramen and photographers were barred from courtrooms.

Momentarily, because they have been coming back to it for some time.

The snapshots of the most important cases thus constitute a treasure.

Hence the idea of ​​this magnificent album, the fruit of the collaboration between Caroline Pigozzi, a famous specialist in the papacy, and the great criminal lawyer Jean-Yves Le Borgne.

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Among many nuggets, we will discover Henriette Caillaux, getting out of a master car in front of the Paris Courthouse with a smile on her face: she had just, on the eve of the Great War, assassinated the director of

Gaston Calmette, guilty in her eyes of wanting to ruin the career of her husband, Joseph Caillaux, the inventor of the income tax.

Here is Marie Besnard again who, in the 1950s…

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