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Why the Dreyfus Affair matters

Begley, Louis (Author).

Summary: 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 attache ́in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sentence was military degradation and life imprisonment on Devil's Island, a hellhole off the coast of French Guiana. Five years later, the case was overturned, and eventually Dreyfus was completely exonerated. Meanwhile, the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart, pitting Dreyfusards - committed to restoring freedom and honor to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by another - against nationalists, anti-Semites, and militarists who preferred having an innocent man rot to exposing the crimes committed by ministers of war and the army's top brass in order to secure Dreyfus's conviction.--[source unknown].

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  • ISBN: 0300125321 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780300125320 (alk. paper) :
  • Physical Description: [xviii], 249 pages : $b illustrations ; $c ; 21 cm.
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  • Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2009]

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General Note:
Series from jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: "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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