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Why the Dreyfus Affair matters / Louis Begley.

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In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attaché in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sentence was military degradation and life imprisonm...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Begley, Louis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Series:Why X matters.
Subjects:
Dreyfus, Alfred, > 1859-1935.
Dreyfus, Alfred, > 1859-1935 > Influence.
Dreyfus, Alfred, > 1859-1935
Trials (Treason) > Political aspects > France.
Antisemitism > France > History > 19th century.
France > History > Third Republic, 1870-1940.
Antisemitism
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Trials (Treason) > Political aspects
France
1800-1940
Electronic book.
History
Table of Contents:
  • "If they haven't been ordered to convict him, he will be acquitted this evening"
  • "The past is never dead"
  • "What do you care if that Jew stays on Devil's Island?"
  • "The truth marches on and nothing will stop it"
  • "Dreyfus was rehabilitated, Picquart became Minster of War, and nobody said boo."

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