The Caillaux Drama (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

John N. Raphael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133057981X ISBN 13: 9781330579817

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Caillaux Drama

Late on Monday afternoon, March 16, 1914, a rumour fired imaginations, like a train of gun powder, all over Paris. In newspaper offices, in cafés, in clubs, people asked one another whether they had heard the news and whether the news were true. It seemed incredible. The Wife of the Minister of Finance, said rumour, Madame Joseph Caillaux, one of the spoiled Children of Paris society, had gone to the office of the Figaro, had waited there an hour or more for the managing editor, Monsieur Gaston Calmette, had been received by him, and had shot him dead in his own office. Nobody believed the story at first. Nobody could believe it. The very possibility of such a happening made it appear impossible. It was known, of course, that for some weeks before the Figaro had been waging an unsparing campaign against the Minister of Finance. It T.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 133057981X
• ISBN 13: 9781330579817
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 383