Word: caillaux
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...Louvre Museum a plumpish elderly woman stood up last week to deliver a lecture. Suddenly the aisles were filled with roaring ranting, young Royalists who waved walking sticks and bawled "Assassine! Assassine!" Before police could rescue the lecturer she was badly battered and bruised. The lady was Mme Henriette Caillaux...
Paralleling the Stavisky-rooted murder of Albert Prince, the great Caillaux-Calmette affair grew from Rochette roots. Because Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro waged a bitter campaign against Joseph Caillaux, Minister of Finance, largely for his alleged part in the Rochette scandal, Mme Caillaux walked into Figaro's office and shot Editor Calmette dead...
Aubervilliers was the irresolute young statesman's salvation. He was and he remains today Mayor of Aubervilliers. Unshakeably rooted in this Paris suburb he cultivated the friends he had made as a Deputy, notably that bald, enigmatic millionaire Joseph Caillaux, onetime Premier. In 1924 Mayor Laval again sought and won election as a Deputy, not as a Socialist this time but as a moderate Republican...
Less than a year later the Auvergnat, diligent in his attendance upon both M. Caillaux and M. Briand, was rewarded by the minor portfolio of Public Works in a Painleve Cabinet which starred Foreign Minister Briand and Finance Minister Caillaux. When Patron Briand shortly came in as Premier he took Protege Laval under his wing, gave him a course in Chamber intrigue as secretary general of the Prime Minister's office, graduated him prematurely in 1926 as Minister of Justice...
...pacifism, that at first some thought him mad. In the end. all France saw him as the incarnate Will to Victory. In 1917 the allied reverses and the fall of the Painleve Cabinet left President Raymond Poincare an alternative which Clemenceau described thus: "It was a case of Caillaux [pacifist] or myself. Had Poincare sent for Caillaux he would have had me arrested and made peace with Germany. He sent for me. I decided to have Caillaux arrested and to go on with...