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- 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 Island – a hellish penal colony off the coast of South America.
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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.
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On 7 February 1898, Zola arrived at the Palais de Justice for the opening of his trial for libel, following the publication of his excoriatory open letter, ‘J’accuse..!’, on the front page of the left-wing newspaper L’Aurore. This fortnight-long public event, which resulted in Zola’s conviction, drew boisterous crowds to the Ile de la Cité, where t...
Convictions about the illegitimacy of Zola’s interrogation of medical and clerical authorities thus blended with ideological persuasions to produce a kind of counter-discourse—one that could easily be redeployed during the Dreyfus Affair. But if the Lourdes debates represent a touchstone for Catholic anti-Dreyfusards, it was also, I shall now sugge...
On the evening of 18 July 1898, Zola fled Paris for London following the failure of his appeal against the verdict on his trial for defamation: sentenced to a year in prison, he would spend the next eleven months in hiding, only returning home once Dreyfus’ retrial was secured. That August, during the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes, a local newspaper...
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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.
- Robbie Mitchell
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...
- Elizabeth Nix
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.
