Joseph Caillaux was a French politician during the Third Republic, born in 1863 and dead in 1943. As a minister of Finances he pushed for the introduction of the principle of an income tax. His political ideas and personnality brought him many enemies within the right wing. In 1914, the conservative newspaper “Le Figaro” released a series of letters exchanged between Caillaux and his wife, when she was only his mistress. During three month, the journal campagn against the politics of Caillaux. In March 1914, Caillaux wife’s Henriette meets the Figaro’s director in his office, and shoots him dead. This event, among with over affairs, suspends Caillaux political career.
The tomb was created by the sculptor François Cogné and the painter Henri Rapin
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