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For Paris in July 2016 , hosted by Tamara at  Thyme for Tea  I found this interesting real life event about a 'crime passionnel'. While reading The Sleepwalkers I came on to a fascinating, real ’crime passionnel’ which happened in France in 1914. As mentioned in the book: ”In Paris, the news from Sarajevo was pushed off the front pages by a scandal of momentous proportions. On 16 March 1914, Madame Caillaux, wife of the former prime minister Joseph Caillaux, had walked into the office of Gaston Calmette, editor of Figaro, and fired six bullets into him. The reason for the murder was the campaign the newspaper had waged against her husband, in the course of which Calmette had published love letters she had written to Joseph Caillaux while he was still married to his first wife” Henriette Caillaux (from Wikipedia) Intriguing to say the least. It can’t be left without a little bit of research on Wikipedia, and here is what I came up with. Henriette Caillaux w...