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Gueydan, the mistress who later became his first wife (Henriette was his second). The letter contained evidence of political double-dealing on Joseph's part and ended with an embarrassingly amorous closing, "Ton Jo" ("Your Joey"). By reproducing this document, the editor Calmette added ridicule to his trumped-up outrage against Joseph Caillaux.
Hace 3 días · Quick Reference. (1863–1944) French statesman; prime minister (1911–12) and five times minister of finance. Born in Le Mans, the son of a former government minister, Caillaux was educated at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris before entering the civil service as an inspector of finance in 1882. Caillaux was first elected as a radical-socialist ...
Three years later, in 1938, Caillaux supported Edouard Daladier in his attempts to negotiate an agreement with the Nazis under Hitler . With the failure of these Caillaux retired from politics, declining to re-emerge at the invitation of the Vichy government. Joseph Caillaux died in Mamers on 22 November 1944 at the age of 81.
On March 16th, the wife of the minister of Finance, Joseph Caillaux, walked into the editorial offices of the newspaper Le Figaro. She calmly shot and killed the paper’s editor Gaston Calmette. Calmette had recently launched fierce personal attacks on her husband’s integrity in the pages of the widely-read journal.
Joseph Caillaux, a notorious boulevardier, had sent the letter 13 years before the trial to another woman, who later became his first wife, and it had been leaked to Figaro. Political and social mores, the Napoleonic Code that discriminated against women legally and the venality of the press all came together in the affaire Caillaux.
16 de mar. de 2017 · Gaston Calmette, editor of the leading Conservative newspaper Le Figaro, threatened to publicize love letters between the former Prime Minister and his second wife, written while both were still married for the first time. Henriette Cailloux was not amused. On March 16, 1914, Madame Cailloux took a taxi to the offices of Le Figaro.
The shooter was Henriette Caillaux, the second wife of Joseph Caillaux, who had been the prime minister of France from June 1911 to January 1912. She believed her target, Gaston Calmette, the editor of Le Figaro, was about to expose the intimate secrets of her marriage. Venomous politics lay behind l’affaire Caillaux.
