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Usage examples of "passionel".
The newspapers had been saying that Madame Fahmy should have shot her husband in Paris where the crime passionel is an acknowledged institution, but not in London where the law is the law.
X had strangled Helen in the hall, but afterwards he took her upstairs and arranged her artistically as a crime passionel on the bed, and that's where Kelvin is when he comes to.
It would be difficult to associate the crime passionel with any of our group.
The Central Statistics Bureau suspected her of having fled to France, Mallory assumed, because someone had appended translations of French policereports of 1854 dealing with a crime passionel trial in the Paris assizes.
The Central Statistics Bureau suspected her of having fled to France, Mallory assumed, because someone had appended translations of French police-reports of 1854 dealing with a crime passionel trial in the Paris assizes.