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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: of France, the defender of Madame Lafarge, La Pommerais, Tropp-
mann, and Marshal Bazaine. M. Demange (famous later for his
defence of Dreyfus) appeared for Gaudry. The case had aroused
considerable interest. Among those present at the trial were
Halevy, the dramatist, and Mounet-Sully and Coquelin, from the
Comedie Francaise. Fernand Rodays thus described the widow
in the Figaro: "She looks more than her age, of moderate
height, well made, neither blatant nor ill at ease, with nothing
of the air of a woman of the town. Her hands are small. Her
bust is flat, and her back round, her hair quite white. Beneath
her brows glitter two jet-black eyes--the eyes of a tigress, that
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