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Henriette Caillaux (5 December 1874 – 29 January 1943) was a Parisian socialite and second wife of the former Prime Minister of France, Joseph Caillaux. On March 16, 1914, she shot and killed Gaston Calmette , editor of the newspaper Le Figaro .
- 29 January 1943 (aged 68)
- Henriette Raynouard, 5 December 1874, Rueil-Malmaison, France
- Socialite, art historian
- Killing the newspaper editor, Gaston Calmette
In 1914, Le Figaro started the publication of love letters that had been sent by Caillaux to his second wife Henriette while he was still married to the first, Berthe Gueydan. In March 1914, Madame Caillaux in turn shot to death Gaston Calmette, the editor of Le Figaro, and Caillaux resigned as Minister of Finance.
On 13th March 1914, Calmette published an intimate letter Joseph Caillaux had written thirteen years earlier to Berthe Gueydan, the mistress who later became his first wife. Henriette became convinced that he would now publish her letters to Caillaux. Three days later Henriette went to visit Calmette in his office in Paris.
Born Henriette Rainouard; died in 1943; second wife of Joseph Caillaux (1863–1944, member of chamber of deputies, premier of France [1911–1912], French minister of finance). In March 1914, as France teetered on the brink of war with Germany, Le Figaro 's editor, Gaston Calmette, continued his two-month campaign against France's minister of ...
11 de mar. de 1992 · 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...
The letter revealed some political double-dealing on Caillaux's part and included an affectionate closing that suggested he and the married Berthe Gueydan, later his first wife, were having an intimate affair. In publishing a personal letter, Calmette had violated a journalistic taboo, shocking Caillaux's current wife, Henriette.
1 de mar. de 1992 · That campaign climaxed with publication of a personal letter Caillaux had written 13 years earlier to Berthe Gueydan, then his mistress, who later divorced her husband to become Caillaux's first wife.
