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Given your defense of Sarah Palin's judgment on Bristol Palin, do you take back what you said about Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy--that her parents were to blame? Emil Caillaux, LIMA...
...succession of inept owners, became a daily in 1866. Somehow, it weathered all storms. By supporting Dreyfus in his epic battle with the French army, it lost half its circulation, but the readers slowly returned. On the eve of World War I, the wife of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, offended by the paper's attacks on her husband, shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette. During...
...member of the 1925 Franco-American War Debts Commission, Auriol shocked his superiors by running up and embracing the doorman at the French embassy, who turned out to be an old school chum. "If you please, Vincent, behave yourself," reproved the commission's president, stiff-backed Joseph Caillaux. "Hey, President," laughed Auriol, "what would you do if you met an old pal from Mamers...
...authors to its pages, and was so successful, that it became a daily newspaper. When it printed pro-Dreyfus articles in the '90s, crowds stormed Le Figaro's plant and burned its equipment. In 1914, after Le Figaro published a series of bitter editorial attacks against Joseph Caillaux, the scandal-ridden Minister of Finance, Madame Caillaux slipped into the office and shot the paper's Director Gaston Calmette to death (a court acquitted...
Died. Joseph Caillaux, 81, bald, be-monocled onetime Premier of France, five times Minister of Finance; in Mamers, France. Son of a millionaire (who was himself Minister of Finance), aristocratic, dictatorial Joseph Caillaux, in 1911, appeased Germany in a secret negotiation, ceding part of the French Congo to the Kaiser for a free French hand in Morocco, was forced to resign his premiership. Blazing because of Le Figaro's attacks on Caillaux and the public reprinting of their love letters, his second wife put five bullets into Le Figaro's Editor Gaston Calmette, was acquitted of murder...