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Joseph-Marie-Auguste Caillaux ( March 30 , 1863 - November 21 / 22 , 1944 ) was a major French politician of the Third Republic . The leader of the Radicals , he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912 , which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911. In 1914 he resigned as Minister of Finance after his wife Henriette shot Gaston Calmette , the editor of '' Le Figaro '' newspaper when he threatened to print a letter written by Caillaux that was political dynamite. She was acquitted, however, and Caillaux became the leader of a peace party in the Assembly during World War I . This led to his arrest and trial for treason in 1918 . Again rehabilitated after the war, Caillaux served at various times in the left wing governments of the 1920s . Joseph Caillaux is interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. CAILLAUX'S MINISTRY, 27 JUNE 1911 - 14 JANUARY 1912
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