Henriette Caillaux

Henriette Caillaux is best known for her dramatic role in the early 20th century when she shot and killed Gaston Calmette, the director of the newspaper Le Figaro, in 1914. This incident caused a scandal that overshadowed her husband Joseph Caillaux's political career, as he was the Minister of Finance at the time and had been advocating for the introduction of a wealth tax.