passionnel

“Your lawyer will claim on your behalf that the killing of Vivien was also a crime passionnel  …  ”

Maigret and the Loner Simenon, Georges -101 1971

“Your lawyer will claim on your behalf that the killing of Vivien was also a crime passionnel  …  ”

Maigret and the Loner Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1971

As to the crime passionnel, nothing could be more straightforward.

Maigret and the Headless Corpse Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1955

There was No. 10 in A Ward, a raddled woman of the streets who had been brought in the night before as the result of a _crime passionnel_, and whose injuries had been the subject of long deliberations.

The Dark House 1922

Had she been of a nervous and emotional temperament there might have been tragedy in the Rue des Saladiers, and the newspapers of Paris might have chronicled yet another _crime passionnel_ and the appearance of Blanquette before a weeping jury.

The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896

It is not only a _roman passionnel_, as Beyle understood passion, not only a collection of Parisian and Provincial scenes, but a romance of secret diplomacy, and one of Seminarist life, with constant side-excursions of

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

And in Scenario C, I wouldn't remember anything and I probably wouldn't even have to go to prison because it would have been what the French call a crime passionnel.

The Guardian World News Chris Cleave 2011

Crucially, she had form with a gun, having shot both her lover, Raymund de Trafford, and then herself, in a rather ostentatious display of crime passionnel at the Gare du Nord in Paris.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

Crucially, she had form with a gun, having shot both her lover, Raymund de Trafford, and then herself, in a rather ostentatious display of crime passionnel at the Gare du Nord in Paris.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

Crucially, she had form with a gun, having shot both her lover, Raymund de Trafford, and then herself, in a rather ostentatious display of crime passionnel at the Gare du Nord in Paris.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010