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1 online resource (375 pages) |
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Cover; Dedication; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on referencing; Prelude; 1. The first Dreyfus Affair: Dreyfus is tried and convicted of treason; A bordereau; Major Henry; Jewish officers; Mercier takes action; Handwriting reports; The arrest; A stream of revelations; Antisemitism in France; Germany on the alert; The daily press and the government in 1894; Mercier surrenders to blackmail; Demange, the defence counsel; The trial of 1894; The degradation ceremony; 2. The beginnings of the Dreyfusard campaign; The myth that Dreyfus had confessed |
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A diplomatic incidentOn Devil's Island; The admirable brother; Picquart's discoveries; The real culprit; The false report of Dreyfus's escape; The meeting of Gonse and Picquart; Scheurer-Kestner; Lucien Herr; Ranc and Reinach; Léon Blum; Jaurès; Zola and Clemenceau; de Pellieux's two enquiries; 'There is no Dreyfus Affair!'; The failure of the attempt to obtain a review; Barrès and Péguy; The Ravary investigation; The Esterhazy trial; J'Accuse ...!; 3. J'Accuse ...!: the Affair as national crisis; The intellectuals; Antisemitic riots; The Paris students; Méline versus Zola; Uproar in Parliament |
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The Zola trialThe Ligue des Droits de l'Homme; Moderate anti-Dreyfusism; Extremist anti-Dreyfusism; Army officers; Catholics; The Protestants; The Jews; The Progressists; The radicals; The working class and the socialists; Women and feminists; The Right; Déroulède; Towards nationalism; The legislative elections of 1898; Mobilization or abstention; The fall of Méline; The Brisson government: Cavaignac becomes War Minister; Forgeries; 4. Henry's suicide and the review of the case; Les Preuves; Cavaignac and Henry; Henry's suicide; Defending a patriotic forgery; The plotting begins |
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Left-wing anticlericalismZurlinden and Chanoine; The Cour de cassation enquiry; Fashoda and the building labourers' strike; The review; The prosecution of Picquart; The Henry appeal; The Ligue de la Patrie Française; The Earth and the Dead; The transfer of the Dreyfus case from the Criminal Division; The death of Félix Faure; A coup is announced in public; The fiasco at the Place de la Nation; Waldeck-Rousseau makes a come-back; Publication of the Cour de cassation enquiry; 5. Retrial and pardon: the 1894 judgement is quashed; Loubert attacked at Auteuil; The people's response; Longchamp |
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The fall of DupuyWaldeck-Rousseau; Gallifet and Millerand; The government of Waldeck-Rousseau; Dreyfusard Left versus anti-Dreyfusard Right; Mercier against Dreyfus; Toujours Déroulède; The beginnings of the Action Française; Dreyfus returns to France; Rennes; The Rennes trial; The plotters are arrested; Mercier's deposition; Mercier dominates the trial; The verdict; Moves towards a pardon; The country returns to peace and quiet; Epilogue; The end of the Affair and its aftermath; A short chronology of the Affair; Further reading; Index |
| Summary |
The Dreyfus affair remains one of the most famous miscarriages of justice in modern times. Eric Cahm's study does justice to the human drama, whilst also throwing light on the wider society and politics of the Third Republic in the traumatic years after the Franco-Prussian War. This wide-ranging survey - the only short modern account in English anchors the Affair in its full social and political context. Organised round a narrative of events, it offers portraits of all the main characters, substantial extracts from key sources in fresh translations, a comprehensive bibliography and a detailed |
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Print version record |
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Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935 -- Influence
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Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935 fast |
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Antisemitism -- France -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Antisemitism
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Intellectual life
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Politics and government -- Social aspects
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France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051441
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France -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Social aspects
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France
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317889465 |
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1317889460 |
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