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Alfred Dreyfus was born on October 9, 1859, in Mulhouse, in the Alsace region of France, to Raphaël and Jeannette Dreyfus (née Libmann), the youngest of nine children. Raphaël, once a peddler, had become a successful textile manufacturer. Jews had lived in the region since the fifth century, but the first stable Jewish communities in Alsace ...
Edited by André Dombrowski. The Image Affair: Dreyfus in the Media, 1894-1906 examines the infamous wrongful conviction for treason, and eventual exoneration, of Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus as it played out in the French media at the turn of the last century.
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- Clericalism & Anticlericalism
- Zola & J'accuse
- Catholic Church Complicity
- Conclusion
The Dreyfus Affair is connected to the intensified clerical and anticlerical struggle waged between Catholic and Republican forces following the crushing French defeat in 1870 at the hands of the Prussians. The military loss was a blow to national pride, carried with it the annexation of Alsace-Moselle, and contributed to the low morale of the Fren...
The details of the Dreyfus Affair mesmerized not only the French public but reverberated internationally. French novelist and playwright Émile Zola (1840-1902) issued his famous J’Accuse (I accuse) in 1898, an elegant and scathing open letter written to the French president Félix Faure. The letter was published in the newspaper L'Aurore in defense ...
Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) had previously "urged French Catholics to support the Republic, but the effects of the Dreyfus case largely undid his efforts" (Walker et al, 672). This policy of rallying Catholics to the Republic may have appeared for a moment to give a chance for a moderate Republic, but in 1898, following the Dreyfus Affair, many Repub...
Centuries of religious struggles have unsurprisingly produced much cynicism and distrust toward religion in France. The Dreyfus Affair during the Third Republic epitomized the conflict between clerical/monarchist and anticlerical/republican forces. The Law of Separation in 1905 abrogated the 1801 Napoleonic Concordat, which had favored Catholicism,...
Aug 4, 2023 · Alfred Dreyfus served his country with honor—yet found himself falsely accused of spying due to antisemitic prejudices. by Jon Guttman 8/4/2023. Alfred Dreyfus is shown imprisoned in 1895. When French authorities learned a double agent was spying for the Germans, Dreyfus became a target for the blame due to bias.
The Dreyfus affair became a national public scandal. The press was filled with editorials on both sides of the issue. Emile Zola, the famous French novelist, published an open letter to the president of France entitled J’accuse, which ran on the front page of a leading Parisian newspaper. Zola argued that the government and the army had ...
Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935). Alfred Dreyfus died in Paris on the evening of July 12th, 1935, aged seventy-four. He died surrounded by his family (his doctor, Pierre-Paul Levy, was his son-in-law) in his comfortable dwelling place in the 17th arrondissement. He died as he would have wished to live, peacefully, like a respectable bourgeois citizen.
May 21, 2024 · Zola's letter to the president of the republic, published in 1898. ullstein bild via Getty Images. ... many of whom continued to oppose justice for Dreyfus even when his innocence became clear ...
