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Trial of Madame Caillaux
Title: Trial of Madame Caillaux
Category: Literature / Novels
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Trial of Madame Caillaux
Book Review of The Trial of Madame Caillaux
The period leading up to World War I in France was a time in which war was a pressing issue, and men were trying to regain their “supermasculinity” after coming back from a miserable defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. Deemed the “trial of the century,” the Caillaux Affair presented itself as a trial not ordinarily witnessed. The trial of Madame Caillaux and her murder of journalist Henry …showed first 75 words of 1390 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1390 total…for Henriette Caillaux, she was acquitted of all charges against her. However, her and Joseph Caiullaux’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” (247). Berenson illustrates this unusual and complex event in French history with remarkable detail without sacrificing the enjoyment gained by the reader.
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