Gaston Calmette was a French journalist and newspaper editor, whose death was the subject of a notable murder trial.
Gaston Calmette in 1913
The cover of Le Petit Journal illustrating the assassination of Gaston Calmette by Henriette Caillaux
Le Figaro is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in a play by polymath Beaumarchais (1732–1799); one of his lines became the paper's motto: "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise".
Front page of 22 November 2015
6th issue, 20 January 1826
Front page of Le Figaro, 4 August 1914
Share of the Société du Figaro, issued 13 June 1923