Tag Archives: Edouard Drumont La Libre Parole

if dreyfus was an arab

Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. The chief actors in the drama have been on the political scene ever since but the dynamic takes on shape-shifting characteristics in defining new enemies and the necessity of an “other” as the basis of … Continue reading

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perjury on parade: waiting to lynch zola

Why we cannot and should not forget Dreyfus. It was the late nineteenth-century, la belle epoque in France. It seems so long ago, but the chief actors in the drama- the double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians, and anti-Semites posing … Continue reading

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dreyfus: national insecurity

Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. The time was “la belle epoque,” and the stage was France. But the chief actors in the drama- the double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians, and anti-Semites posing as patriots- have remained on the political … Continue reading

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dreyfus: not so libre parole

Why we cannot forget the Dreyfus Affair. … Auguste Mercier’s exact motives for illegally condemning a brother officer to life-in-death have never been satisfactorily explained. It has been suggested that Dreyfus’s arrest was a snap decision, and the general was … Continue reading

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