To the question:
"Is Ms. Caillaux guilty of having, on March 16, in Paris, committed voluntary homicide on the person of Gaston Calmette?"
, the foreman of the jury replied,
“In my honor and conscience, before God and before men, the declaration of the jury is no.”
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On July 28, 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia but, in Paris, all eyes were riveted on the courthouse where, after a week of debates, the trial of Henriette Caillaux, wife of the Minister of Finance and former President of the Council, Joseph Caillaux.
We sometimes speak of the "magic of the assizes" to celebrate the orality of the debates when it leads to the manifestation of the truth.
In this case, it is a phenomenal miracle: four and a half months earlier, Henriette Caillaux had murdered Gaston Calmette, the director of
Figaro.
Apprehended her smoking Browning in her hand, she herself recognized her gesture.
The Caillaux trial had international repercussions.
It is one of…
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