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Edward Berenson
The Trial of Madame Caillaux
$21.95, £12.95 paperback
978-0-520-08428-5
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296 pages,
January 1992, Available worldwide
Categories: History; European History; Gender Studies; French Studies
January 1992, Available worldwide
Categories: History; European History; Gender Studies; French Studies
"More than a courtroom drama; it is a drama of ideas. . . . a scholarly spellbinder, whose clear, elegant prose reveals the elaborate fictions at the heart of Belle Epoque France."—Julie Martin, New York Times Book Review
"[A] skillfully-crafted and absorbing study. Though he presents the volume as a case-study in micro-history, the course of the trial is not his major focus, and serves rather as a series of pegs on which he hangs well-rounded and pertinent analyses of key social and cultural features of pre-war France."—Colin Jones, Times Higher Education Supplement
"A carefully researched analysis that yields insights into the years when feminism was beginning to affect social mores."—Publishers Weekly
"Like the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, which kept Americans glued to their television sets, L'Affaire Caillaux mesmerized Belle Epoque France. . . . A fascinating portrait of an era."—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"A rich and heady brew."—The Atlantic
"Ironic and compelling."—Stefan Kanfer, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Recaptures the drama of a scandal that held the French public in thrall with its TV movie-like mix of passion, crime, high society, moral and immoral behavior. . . . Fascinating."—Booklist
"A skillful take on France's Belle Epoque, using the celebrated 1914 trial of Henriette Caillaux for the murder of Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette as a springboard to examine a wide range contemporary topics. . . . Freshly researched, elegantly written, always engrossing."—Kirkus Reviews
"[A] skillfully-crafted and absorbing study. Though he presents the volume as a case-study in micro-history, the course of the trial is not his major focus, and serves rather as a series of pegs on which he hangs well-rounded and pertinent analyses of key social and cultural features of pre-war France."—Colin Jones, Times Higher Education Supplement
"A carefully researched analysis that yields insights into the years when feminism was beginning to affect social mores."—Publishers Weekly
"Like the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, which kept Americans glued to their television sets, L'Affaire Caillaux mesmerized Belle Epoque France. . . . A fascinating portrait of an era."—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"A rich and heady brew."—The Atlantic
"Ironic and compelling."—Stefan Kanfer, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Recaptures the drama of a scandal that held the French public in thrall with its TV movie-like mix of passion, crime, high society, moral and immoral behavior. . . . Fascinating."—Booklist
"A skillful take on France's Belle Epoque, using the celebrated 1914 trial of Henriette Caillaux for the murder of Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette as a springboard to examine a wide range contemporary topics. . . . Freshly researched, elegantly written, always engrossing."—Kirkus Reviews
"What a pleasure it is to read a book by a gifted writer whose exhaustive research results in such thought-provoking insights."—Deirdre Bair, author of Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
Edward Berenson recounts the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a powerful French cabinet minister, who murdered her husband's enemy Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette, in March 1914, on the eve of World War I. In analyzing this momentous event, Berenson draws a fascinating portrait of Belle Epoque politics and culture.