On 17 March 1951, Pauline Dubuisson shot her former lover three times with a pistol and killed him. Sentenced to hard labour for life, she only escaped the guillotine thanks to the only
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On 17 March 1951, Pauline Dubuisson shot her former lover three times with a pistol and killed him. Sentenced to hard labour for life, she only escaped the guillotine thanks to the only woman on the jury. For, beyond the crime of passion, it was first and foremost a woman who was condemned by the justice system of the time. A free woman, a brilliant medical student, a teenager who "slept" with Germans during the war, a "hyena" as the prosecutor would call her. In 1961, when she was released from prison, Georges Clouzot's "La Vérité" came out on the screens with Brigitte Bardot in the lead role. The film, based on Pauline's story, precipitated her tragic end.
