Read more about this date in 1898 and J'Accuse and the Dreyfus Affair. #DreyfusAffair #OTD #OnThisDate #ThisDayInHistory #History #FrenchHistory #France
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Translation credits: "J'Accuse," tr. Jean-Max Guieu, Shelley Temchin, 2001. The Guermantes Way, tr. Peter Bush, 2025. #Proust #Proustsky #EmileZola #DreyfusAffair
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On this day in 1898, #EmileZola published "J'Accuse!…," his blistering criticism of the trial and imprisonment of French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus. In #Proust, the #DreyfusAffair is used as a marker for the shifting of the social kaleidoscope #Proustsky
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The treasonous Frenchman was Major Ferdinand Esterhazy. He was passing French military secrets to the Germans. To cover up this treason, the military tried to pin it on Alfred Dreyfus, an active-duty Captain with Jewish ancestry. This was the Dreyfus Affair and it roiled French and European politics for more than a decade.
In addition to accusing top military officials of covering up the treason, Emile Zola’s open letter laid out some details that would exonerate Dreyfus, but were not being reported by media loyal to the military, which, at the time, were most media. Other investigations followed and unearthed the breadth of the cover up, but it took some time to ferret out the truth. In that time, Zola was accused of libel and put on trial. He fled to England for nearly a year until the French courts and public opinion swung toward exonerating both Dreyfus and Zola.
It’s hard to overstate the impact of the Dreyfus Affair. It formed entrenched ideological camps – anti-Semitic nationalists, the Catholic Church, and militarists on one side and academics, artists, and writers on the other. The Dreyfus Affair, the Russian pogroms of this time and other public demonstrations of anti-Semitism led Theodor Herzl to begin his Zionist campaign calling for the creation of a Jewish state that could protect Jewish people. On the 100th Anniversary of Zola’s "J’accuse!," the French Catholic newspaper "La Croix" published an apology for its anti-Semitic editorials during the Dreyfus Affair.
The top of the front page of the French newspaper "L'Aurore" on January 13, 1898. By uncovering the hatred and treason of top military officials, Emile Zola's open letter "J'Accuse!"t caused a decade of political turmoil in France.
On this day in 1898, French author and intellectual Emile Zola published "J’accuse!" It was an open letter on the front page of a liberal, Paris newspaper and it claimed – accurately – that the French military was covering up treason by a well-connected officer.
#WriterSky #DreyfusAffair #Zionism
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The front cover of 'J'accuse' by Emile Zola.
On this day in 1898 Emile Zola's 'J'Accuse' was released.
#OnThisDay #History #France #Zola #DreyfusAffair
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In the horrific #DreyfusAffair, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1895, French artillery captain #AlfredDreyfus was stripped of rank by a military court and sentenced to life on #DevilsIsland prison (#Cayenne, #FrenchGuiana). His only crime was being Jewish under rising European racism.
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The #Epstein scandal is this era's #Dreyfusaffair, though vaster in scale. We won't know all of it for years, but it's bigger even than Trump's monstrous behavior. This is an entire tranche of aristocrats, beyond political affiliations, beyond good and evil. These are people who believe that no […]
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French-Jewish artillery captain #AlfredDreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason in a military court on #ThisDayInHistory in 1894. No evidence was presented; the #DreyfusAffair was #Judeophobic scapegoating for the #FrancoPrussianWar loss & a clear example of French #antisemitism.
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Newspaper cutting from the Bexhill Chronicle 4.10.1902 reporting on a probably visit by Captain Alfred Dreyfus to Bexhill.
"Probable Stay of Ex-Capt. Dreyfus In Bexhill.
A Private Visit.
His Son's Love of English Sports."
Bexhill Chronicle 4.10.1902. #Bexhill #Sussex #DreyfusAffair #History #1900s
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In the first part of a new series, Paul Hynes discusses #France 's #ThirdRepublic from 1870 to 1940: next time, the #WhatIf moments. #FrenchHistory #HistoireFrancais #TroisiemeRepublique #BelleEpoque #DreyfusAffair #Revanchism www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-...
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#FilmForum : may not be politically correct to say so, but Roman Polanski's film about the #DreyfusAffair is excellent
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Alfred Dreyfus, an innocent man J’Accused of the treason, because he was Jewish, and sent to the prison on Devil’s Island. The ongoing scandal rocked the French establishment.
It is telling that the first derisive use of the word “intellectual” as a part of political speech was by the anti-semites in the French Army during the #DreyfusAffair that very nearly tore France apart at the turn of the 19th century.
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2025 challenge: one #book a day.
Day 168: #LeCôtéDeGuermantesI by #MarcelProust
Ok, this is clearly a week dedicated to #ÀLaRechercheDuTempsPerdu, so let’s move on with the first part of the third novel.
As #Marcel keeps encountering people; the #DreyfusAffair is hinted at for the first time.
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France's Defense Committee has approved a bill to posthumously promote Captain Alfred Dreyfus to brigadier general, addressing historic antisemitism and societal bias. This bill aims to honor Dreyfus and reaffirm France's commitment to combating antisemitism. #DreyfusAffair #Antisemitism #Justice
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Second challenge movie of the month is another #OscarWinner, this one starring #PaulMuni as #EmileZola.
#FilmSky #DreyfusAffair #TheLifeOfEmileZola #HollywoodHistory #France
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The Dreyfus Affair: A Symbol of Injustice and Resilience ⚖️✊
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