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Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters

Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters

Begley, Louis

Paperback

Series: Why X Matters

French HistoryGeneral LawGeneral Military History

ISBN10: 0300168144
ISBN13: 9780300168143
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Sep 28 2010
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.62 Width: 4.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

From the prize-winning author of Wartime Lies, an anatomy of the infamous prosecution of a Jewish officer attached to the French Army's General Staff, with profound implications for our own time.

In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attaché in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sentence was military degradation and life imprisonment on Devil's Island, a hellhole off the coast of French Guiana. Five years later, the case was overturned, and eventually Dreyfus was completely exonerated. Meanwhile, the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart, pitting Dreyfusards--committed to restoring freedom and honor to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by another--against nationalists, anti-Semites, and militarists who preferred having an innocent man rot to exposing the crimes committed by ministers of war and the army's top brass in order to secure Dreyfus's conviction.

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