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LONDON — On 18 July 1898, Émile Zola vanished from his Parisian home. The French novelist and global celebrity had just caused a national sensation in France by penning an open letter...
On 13 January 1898, Émile Zola touched off a new dimension in the Dreyfus affair, which became known simply as The Affair. The first great Dreyfusard intellectual , Zola was at the height of his glory: the twenty volumes of the Les Rougon-Macquart epic were being distributed in dozens of countries.
May 20, 2021 · In a curious slippage, Zola’s trial for libel during the Affair appears as the punishment for another kind of defamation altogether: his adulteration in literary fiction of the miracle cures he was supposed to have witnessed during his fortnight-long visit to the Pyrenean shrine in the summer of 1892.
Sep 30, 2023 · Emile Zola’s fearless “J’Accuse…!” and the ensuing public outcry played pivotal roles in exposing the truth and righting a grievous wrong. This affair had profound consequences, leading to reforms in the French military and legal systems.
Jan 14, 2015 · A scandal that rocked France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Dreyfus affair involved a Jewish artillery captain in the French army, Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), who was falsely...
In the 4,000-word open letter that ran beneath it, France’s leading novelist, Emile Zola, accused the French government of having orchestrated a travesty of justice four years before, in which an innocent Jewish captain in the French army, Alfred Dreyfus, was convicted of treason and sentenced to solitary confinement for life on Devil's ...
For denouncing the fraudulent basis of the two espionage trials that resulted in Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s expulsion from the army and imprisonment on Devil’s Island, Zola was deemed a criminal, guilty of libelling a public institution, which entailed a fine of 3,000 francs and a year’s jail sentence.
