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The Dreyfus Affair, from its infamous first verdict to the Jewish officer’s unequivocal exoneration in 1906, split French public opinion in two opposing camps. Beyond the legal proceedings for retrial and efforts by Dreyfus supporters like Emile Zola - with his celebrated public letter “J’accuse...!” in 1898 - the controversy unleashed political issues (nationalism, socialism, anticlericalism, antimilitarism, survival of the republican regime, separation of Church and State, etc.) as well as more moral ones (civic and human rights vs. anti-Semitism and intolerance, manipulation of public opinion, responsibility of the Press, limits of executive power over the judiciary, etc.). By mobilizing most of the intellectual elites of its time, the turmoil of the Affair intensified internal divisions and its impact had a long lasting influence on the 20th century. This digital bibliography is the reflection of the passions it aroused, the struggles it provoked and the interest, both historical and moral, it keeps inspiring even up to our days. |
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In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus was tried for high treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in total isolation on Devil’s Island, off the coast of the peal colony of French Guiana. It took many years for the truth to be known: Dreyfus was totally innocent of the crime and false evidences had been used to convict him.