labour or death. Alternatively, if she could convince the jury of extenuating circumstances, she could be sentenced to five years of hard labour; or, as would emerge, if she could convince the jury of extremely extenuating circumstances, they could return a verdict of not guilty. To that end, she "portrayed herself as the victim of passions behind her control, as a woman rendered irresponsible by emotions more powerful than will itself" and attributed her actions to "uncontrollable impulses [which made] her lose control over her own actions". The defence, coupled with the emergence of sociological theories of criminology which attributed criminal action to environmental and unconscious factors and the traditional narrative of women ruled by their passions, helped her secure acquittal on 28 July 1914. Later life In the early 1930s she was awarded a diploma of the École du Louvre for her thesis on the sculptor Jules Dalou. She published a reference book in 1935 in which she established an inventory of the work of this artist. She died in 1943. Legacy [[File:The Caillaux Case.jpg|thumb|Advertisement for The Caillaux Case in Motion Picture World (1918)]] In 1918, an American silent film, The Caillaux Case, was released by Fox Film. Directed by Richard Stanton, it featured Madlaine Traverse as Henriette Caillaux and Eugene Ormonde as Gaston Calmette. The film portrays both Henriette Caillaux and her husband as pro-German conspirators and traitors to France. Before and during World War I, Joseph Caillaux had indeed been an advocate of peaceful compromise with Germany, and at the end of 1917 while the war was still going on, he was charged and convicted of treason. The film was not a financial success. In 1968 a German television film Madame Caillaux was made. A 1985 made for French television film called L'Affaire Caillaux and a 1992 book titled Trial of Madame Caillaux by American history professor Edward Berenson recount the event. In addition, Robert Delaunay used an illustration of the assassination as the basis for his 1914 painting Political Drama. References Sources Further reading Kershaw, Alister. Murder in France. (London: Constable, 1955), 90-117. Shankland, Peter. Death of an Editor: The Caillaux Drama''. (London: William Kimber, 1981) External links 1874 births 1943 deaths French assassins Feminism and history People acquitted of murder Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery