biography
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Caillaux, Joseph (Marie Auguste)
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pronunciation:
[kiyoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1944)
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| biography:
| French statesman, financier, and prime minister of France (1911–12), born in Le Mans, NW France. He trained as a lawyer, was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1898, and became finance minister in several governments. His brief term as prime minister ended when he was overthrown for showing too conciliatory an attitude towards Germany. In 1914, his second wife shot Gaston Calmette, editor of Figaro, who had launched a campaign against him and published a number of their private letters; after a famous trial, she was acquitted. He stayed in politics until France fell in 1940, when he retired. |
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