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  Joseph Caillaux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was acquitted, however, and Caillaux became the leader of a peace party in the Assembly during World War I.
Joseph Caillaux is interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Joseph Caillaux - President of the Council and Minister of the Interior and Worship
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Joseph Caillaux
She was acquitted, however, and Caillaux became the leader of a peace party in the Assembly during World War I. Joseph Caillaux is interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Born Henriette Raynouard, she was having an affair with Joseph Caillaux while he was still married but eventually he divorced and the two married.
Madame Caillaux believed that the only way for her husband to defend his reputation would be to challenge Calmette to a duel and that one way or another, it would destroy her and her husband's life.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Joseph Caillaux
Joseph Caillaux (1863-1944) served as Prime Minister of France for a few months in the immediate pre-war years, but was jailed for a period at the close of the war for his radical pacifist stance.
Reviled for being a pro-German pacifist, Caillaux was obliged to resign in January 1912.
Joseph Caillaux died in Mamers on 22 November 1944 at the age of 81.
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 Joseph Caillaux
Caillaux was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1898 and after acquiring a reputation as an expert on economic matters was appointed minister of finance in 1899, a post he held until 1902.
Caillaux was accused of being a pacifist in 1913 when he opposed an extension to conscription.
In 1938 Caillaux supported Edouard Daladier in his attempts to negotiate an agreement with Adolf Hitler.
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 Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
Caillaux expressed pacifist sentiments during World War I and allegedly made contact with the Germans to discuss a negotiated peace.
He was arrested (1917) and sentenced (1920) to three years imprisonment for involvement with the enemy.
After his civil rights were restored under a general amnesty, Caillaux served as finance minister in the cabinets of Paul Painlevé (1925) and Aristide Briand (1926), but after each appointment a hostile chamber of deputies forced his resignation.
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 Joffre Joseph Jacques CEsaire: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Caillaux Joseph - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Joseph (Hebrew, “he shall add”), in the Old Testament and the Koran, the 11th son of the patriarch Jacob, or Israel, by his favourite wife, Rachel....
Joseph I (Holy Roman Empire) (1678-1711), Holy Roman Emperor (1705-1711).
The eldest son of Emperor Leopold I, Joseph was crowned King of Hungary...
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 Joseph Caillaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Joseph-Marie-Auguste Caillaux (March 30, 1863 - November 21/22, 1944) was a major French politician of the Third Republic The french third republic, (in french, troisième republique, sometimes written as iiième republique) (1870/75-1940/46), was the governing body of france between the second french empire and...
In 1914 he resigned as Minister of Finance after his wife Henriette Henriette caillaux (1874-1943) was a parisian socialite and wife of the former prime minister of france who is remembered as an assassin....
She was acquitted, however, and Caillaux became the leader of a peace party in the Assembly during World War I A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
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 The trial of Madame Caillaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The trial of Madame Caillaux was one of the most significant events of the France's Belle Epoque era.
Joseph was a genius when it came to the fiances of a country, but the immoral way he divorced his ex-wife Berthe Gueydan would be a major point in the trial.
It is clear that in today's society that Madame Caillaux would have been sentenced to jail for a long time, but in France at the time of the trial it was so unheard of for a woman to do such a thing.
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 Caillaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In Vichy, in August 1916, Caillaux and his wife were pursued by a howling crowd of women and forced to take refuge in the sous-prefecture.
Clemenceau was a particular enemy and on 11 December 1917 he demanded the suspension of Caillaux' political immunity.
Caillaux was arrested in January 1918, accused of 'intelligence with the enemy.' The case was not heard until 1920, when he had already spent three years in prison.
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 Europe's Slide to War, 1911-14
Germany's show of force was an embarrassment to France's prime minister, Joseph Caillaux, who was a politically progressive, wealthy financier who had desired peace and reconciliation with Germany.
Caillaux was pushing for tax reform in France, and French politicians opposed to Caillaux's tax reform used Germany's belligerence to win opposition to his government.
Caillaux's government fell, and Caillaux was replaced by Raymond Poincaré, who supported and helped inspire a new patriotism in France, a new spirit of confidence and pride.
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 Joseph Caillaux - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Joseph, Saint, in the New Testament, husband of the Virgin Mary.
Most of what is known about him is contained in the first two chapters of the books...
Joseph (Hebrew, “he shall add”), in the Old Testament, the 11th son of the patriarch Jacob, or Israel, by his favorite wife, Rachel.
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 Joseph Caillaux
Joseph Caillaux, the son of Eugéne Caillaux, a conservative politician, was born in Le Mans, France, on 30th March, 1863.
This resulted in Madame Caillaux killing Calmette but at her trial she was acquitted of murder.
Caillaux worked hard to achieve a negotiated peace.
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 Madame Calliaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Madame Caillaux The trial of Madame Caillaux, the wife and sociallite of political figure Joseph Caillaux, was quite the contraversy during the French Revolution.
Some journalists envied Madame Caillaux quoting her as having a crime of passion to be able to shoot her husband.
One argument discussed by Madame Caillaux was the fact that she was the one whom the public scorned, particularly for her tainted past until the marriage to Joseph.
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 France 1900-1914
French Premier, Joseph Caillaux held office at the time of the Agadir Crisis (Morocco II) in 1911.
Caillaux (the former lover, now second wife) to go to Calmette’s office where she shot him six times in the belly, killing him.
Caillaux was acquitted of all charges on July 28, 1914.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Caillaux's Boast -- Jul 11, 1927
Onetime (1911-12) Premier of France Joseph Caillaux was reported to have discussed last week the subject of alimony awards by French courts in somewhat boastful fashion with a group of U. lawyers, including famed Dudley Field Malone.
Caillaux, shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro on March 16, 1914, because his paper was attacking her husband?
Caillaux who, for example, was convicted by the French Senate of "plotting against the security of the state abroad," in 1920; yet managed to become Minister of Finance in 1925.
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 Joseph Caillaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Joseph-Marie-Auguste Caillaux (March 30 1863 - November 21 / 22 1944) was a major French politician of Third Republic.
This led to his arrest and for treason in 1918.
Again rehabilitated after the war Caillaux at various times in the left wing of the 1920s.
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 Re: Madame Caillaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I feel that the most important themes that run through the book are the idea of gender in a crime passionnel or a crime of passion and the unlimited power of the press.
The editor, Gaston Calmette, is a political adversary of Caillaux’s husband, Joseph Caillaux, the Financial Minister of France.
His timing coincided with Joseph Caillaux trying to finalize an income tax bill in the French Senate.
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 Term Paper on The Trial of Madame Caillaux
The trial of Madame Caillaux and her murder of journalist Henry Calmette symbolized French culture to its core.
However, she and Joseph Caillaux's lives would never be the same again.
The Caillaux Affair "marked the end of an era whose efforts to forsake the culture and values of the nineteenth century only revealed how persistent those mores could be".
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 First World War.com - Vintage Video - Joseph Caillaux's Cabinet, 1911
Joseph Caillaux served as French Prime Minister of France for a few months in 1911-12 but was jailed for a time at the close of the First World War for his radical pacifist stance.
Click here to view footage of Caillaux and his Cabinet filmed in 1911 (Windows Media, 10 seconds, 129KB).
A "salient" is a battle line that projects into territory nominally held by enemy forces.
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 Who's Who in the Twentieth Century: Caillaux, Joseph @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caillaux, Joseph (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 deputy to the French chamber in 1898 and was appointed finance minister (1899–1902; 1906–09).
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 Caillaux, Joseph - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
1918 - France's former Premier Joseph Caillaux is arrested for treason after he opposes involvement in World War I. He is later found guilty of committing damage...
proclaimed sultan of Morocco at Fez.1918 - France's former Premier Joseph Caillaux is arrested for treason after he opposes involvement in World War...
Conradiana; June 22, 1999; Biskupski, M.B. most prominent representative was Joseph Caillaux--had been routed by the Clemenceau...
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 Joseph Caillaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of thepeace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911.
In 1914 he fell into disgracewhen his wife shot the editor of Le Figaro when he threatened to printlove letters between her and Caillaux from when she was still married to another man. She was acquitted, however, and Caillauxbecame the leader of a peace party in the Assembly during World War I.
Again rehabilitated after the war,Caillaux served at various times in the left wing governments of the 1920s.
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 16 mars 1914 : Mme Caillaux tire sur Gaston Calmette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Joseph Caillaux, député de Mamers (Sarthe), a 50 ans.
A posteriori, il apparaît que sans la prudence de Joseph Caillaux, la Grande Guerre aurait pu se produire avec trois ans d'avance, à un moment où la France n'était manifestement pas encore prête, l'Allemagne de l'empereur Guillaume II ayant devancé tous ses voisins dans la course aux armements.
Joseph Caillaux, en vrai animal politique, saura retrouver des postes ministériels après avoir connu le déshonneur et la prison, mais sa place dans l'Histoire aura été escamotée à jamais, en laissant le regret d'une guerre qui eût pu être, sinon empêchée, du moins mieux conduite.
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 La Fiscalité en France : L'IMPÔT CAILLAUX
Elle a fait de son auteur une des personnalités les plus en vue de la classe politique française au début du siècle et associe le nom de Caillaux à l'impôt sur le revenu.
La guerre de 1914-1918 a vu la naissance du "système Caillaux", la seconde guerre mondiale a donné lieu aux réformes de 1948, la Vème République à celles de 1959.
En février 1907, Joseph Caillaux dépose son projet de loi instituant un impôt général sur le revenu.
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 1906-11. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Parlement established a committee that drew up a bill to extend the municipal franchise to all women, but women's suffrage would not become a reality until 1944.
Second Moroccan crisis (See June–Nov) and other international problems dominated the ministries of Joseph Caillaux (July 27, 1911–Jan. 10, 1912), and Raymond Poincaré (Jan. 14, 1912–Jan. 18, 1913).
A law increasing military service from two to three years carried, with vigorous opposition from Radical Socialists and Socialists.
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 Lucky Strike Joseph Caillaux Ad 1927
Description: Lucky Strike Joseph Caillaux Ad 1927 This is an April 23, 1927 advertisement It is a nice fl and white ad from The American Tobacco Co makers of Lucky Strike.
It has a nice picture of Joseph Caillaux and he writes, I have found your Lucky Strike cigarettes very agreeable.
Photo is taken through plastic and may show wrinkles or crookedness that is not in the ad.
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 Joseph Caillaux - MSN Encarta
Caillaux, Joseph (1863-1944), controversial French political leader, born in Le Mans.
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 Giudizi su Caillaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Joseph Caillaux, théoricien convaincu de la déchéance française".
Caillaux, président du Conseil, m'interdira d'être pour Caillaux".
le jour, où les hasards de la politique ramèneraient au pouvoir M. Joseph Caillaux, sera un moment tragique pour la France...".
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