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This is my first post and we will be talking about crime passionnnel . Few days back I was reading about famous crimes and came across some cases where the murderer was practically let off because the jury considered the case to be as a crime of passion. We will talk some controversial cases in history involving crime passionel in my next post.Just a brief intro for my first post.

The French are the most lenient of all races in crime passionnel cases

Quotes from wikipedia

"A crime of passion, in popular usage, refers to a crime in which the perpetrator commits a crime, especially assault or murder, against someone because of sudden strong impulse such as sudden rage or heartbreak rather than as a premeditated crime. A typical crime of passion might involve an aggressive pub-goer who assaults another guest following an argument or a husband who discovers his wife has made him a cuckold and proceeds to brutally batter or even kill his wife or the man with whom she was involved."

"In some countries, notably France, crime passionnel (or crime of passion) was a valid defense during murder cases; during the 19th century, some cases could be a custodial sentence for two years for the murderer, while the spouse was dead; this ended in France as the Napoleonic code was updated in the 1970s so that a specific father's authority upon his whole family was over."

The murderer wife of a popular French minister was allowed to walk free because the jury was unanimously crime of passion.

A photo of Yvonne Chevallier, guilty wife of murdered French minister Pierre Chevalier is given.