![]() 175, 14 November 1896 (Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair, University of Pennsylvania Libraries)ġ5. Anon., ‘Judas defended by his brothers’, from La Libre Parole illustrée, no. 1900 (Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris)ġ4. 1860 (Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris)ġ3. September 1899–February 1900 (Private collection, courtesy Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris)ġ2. ![]() Alfred and Mathieu Dreyfus at Carpentras, c. Alfred Dreyfus, mathematical problems and doodles, c. 1895–8 (Archives nationales d’Outre mer, Aix-en-Provence. Alfred Dreyfus, ‘La double boucle’, sketch of the manacles that imprisoned him (From Alfred Dreyfus, Cinq années de ma vie, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1901)ġ0. Bonnet, ‘Devil’s Island’, from La Vie illustrée, (Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair, University of Pennsylvania Libraries)ĩ. Henri Meyer, ‘The Traitor: The Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus’, cover of Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895 (Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair, University of Pennsylvania Libraries)Ĩ. Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry, 1898 (Ordre des avocats de Paris)ħ. Lucie Hadamard, 1888 (Private collection, courtesy Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris)Ħ. Alphonse Bertillon, ‘Signalement anthropométrique’, from Identification anthropométrique: instructions signalétiques (Melun, 1893)ĥ. Commandant Armand Mercier du Paty de Clam, 1900 (Photo: Ullsteinbild / Topfoto)Ĥ. The bordereau (Photo: Service historique de la Defense, Paris)ģ. Alfred Dreyfus, 1884 (Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris)Ģ. The publishers will be happy to make good in future editions any errors or omissions brought to their attention.ġ. Anti-Dreyfusard Movements and MartyrologyĮvery effort has been made to contact all copyright holders. Mother-love and Nationalism: Maurice Barrès and Jules Souryġ1. Dreyfusards and the Judaeo-Christian Traditionġ0. ‘Anti-intellectuals’: Catholics and the Occultĩ. France, Germany and the Jewish CommunityĨ. Sweeping and engaging, Dreyfus offers a new understanding of one of the most contested and significant moments in modern history. Instead, she offers the first in-depth history of both sides in the Affair, showing how complex interlocking influences-tensions within the military, the clashing demands of justice and nationalism, and a tangled web of friendships and family connections-shaped both the coalition working to free Dreyfus and the formidable alliances seeking to protect the reputation of the army that had convicted him. ![]() Over the following years, attempts to correct this injustice tore France apart, inflicting wounds on the society which have never fully healed.īut how did a fairly obscure miscarriage of justice come to break up families in bitterness, set off anti-Semitic riots across the French empire, and nearly trigger a coup d'état? How did a violently reactionary, obscurantist attitude become so powerful in a country that saw itself as the home of enlightenment? Why did the battle over a junior army officer occupy the foremost writers and philosophers of the age, from Émile Zola to Marcel Proust, Émile Durkheim, and many others? What drove the anti-Dreyfusards to persist in their efforts even after it became clear that much of the prosecution's evidence was faked?ĭrawing upon thousands of previously unread and unconsidered sources, prizewinning historian Ruth Harris goes beyond the conventional narrative of truth loving democrats uniting against proto-fascists. In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany and imprisoned on Devil's Island. The definitive history of the infamous scandal that shook a nation and stunned the world ![]()
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