Crime of Passion

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A crime committed in the heat of passion, i.e., one that is not premeditated
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Joelle Guillais, La Chair de l'autre: le crime passionel au XIXe siecle (Paris, 1986).
Judicial authority and popular justice: crimes of passion in Fin-de-Siecle Paris
'The law that was designed to deter professional gunmen and gangsters could become the instrument that hangs a cuckolded husband; an offence that in France would be treated as a 'crime passionel' and as such only lightly punished, attracts here the death sentence.
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He murdered his wife in a crime passionel and William had thought of writing an opera about him.'
Culture: Walton's widow joins in the party; Centenary celebrations mean a busy time for Lady Susana Walton, says Christopher Morley
too, had just taken your once-in-a-lifetime shot at a crime passionel. But Chesnais's finest moment comes when the character is standing on his own doorstep.
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And the plot, centring around a crime of passion - or rather, 'crime passionel' - unravels a deceptively simple open-and-shut case to reveal familiar webs of playboy deceit, greed and hypocrisy under the Caribbean sun.
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