Gaston Calmette

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Gaston Calmette , born with Montpellier (Herault) the January 30th 1858 and dead assassinated with Paris the March 16th 1914, is a journalist French.

Director of the daily newspaper Le Figaro starting from 1903, it launches, in January 1914, at the instigation of Louis Barthou and Raymond Poincaré, a virulent campaign against Joseph Caillaux, Minister for Finance in the government Doumergue.

Exceeded by this countryside, the wife of the minister, Henriette Caillaux, go to the drafting of the newspaper and keep silent her director of a blow of revolver. The scandal involves as of the following day the resignation of the minister.

Gaston Calmette is the older brother of the bacteriologist Albert Calmette (1863-1933).

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