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Died. Henriette Caillaux, ex-Premier Joseph Caillaux's wife, acquitted in 1914 of murdering Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro; in Département Sarthe, France. Campaigning against Caillaux, then Finance Minister, Calmette had printed a love letter Caillaux had written Henriette while he was still married to his first wife, and threatened to print more. Mme. Caillaux went to his office and shot him dead. A French jury decided there had been no premeditation, acquitted her, and precipitated a political crisis. The case for days distracted French attention from the outbreak of World War I. Even 20 years...
Clemenceau Government arrested him as a defeatist follower of onetime Premier Joseph Caillaux, but later promised him safety if he would snitch on other defeatists. Many were shot, imprisoned or deported. Laval went free...
...simple, homely daughter of Socialist Leader Dr. Georges Claussat. He has since kept Madame Laval in the background. He began to prosper as a legal fixer, moved to a swank home in Paris, wangled an amnesty law for defeatists through the Chamber, and snuggled up to influential Joseph Caillaux...
...Government sanitary authorities three times refused to endorse the waters of Chateldon, which had no special properties whatever. Laval got a friend appointed Health Minister in a fast-disappearing French Cabinet, got his endorsement, made his sales. Laval's legal manipulation was especially lucrative while his friend Caillaux occupied the Finance Ministry. He figured in many great French financial scandals from the Stavisky case down...
Other Ministries: Finance, Senator Yves Boutillier, who had been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...