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Tag Archives: Emile Zola
dreyfus was a goner
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus… …By having Du Paty deliver his memorandum at the last minute in a semi-clendestine way, and by enjoining the court to keep its contents secret, Gen. Auguste Mercier deprived the defense of its legal right … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Chaim Soutine, Col. Jean Sandherr, Emile Zola, Frederick Brown, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gen. Felix Gustave Saussier, Hannah Arendt Dreyfus, Joseph Henry Drefus Affair, louis begley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Marcel Proust, Maurice Weil, Piers Paul Read, Roman Polanski Dreyfus film, Ruth harris Dreyfus, Siegfried Thalheimer historian, The Dreyfus Affair, Theodor Herzl, Vincent Duclert historian
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captain dreyfus: court farcial
…The premier, Charles Aexandre Dupuy, the foreign minister, Gabriel Hanotux, and other cabinet colleagues whom Mercier consulted, had advised against hasty action in the case: the reactions of both the French public and the German Kaiser were dangerously unpredictable. Gen. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Carlos Blacker, Chris Healy Irish poet, Col. A. Panizzardi, Col. Henry Dreyfus Affair, Col. Jean Sandherr, Col. Max von Schwartzkoppen, Eddie Naughton, Emile Zola, Francisco Goya, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gregor Dallas, Honore Daumier, Ilan Halimi, Jean-Louis Levy, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Peter Lefcourt, Robert Maguire, Rowland Strong, The Dreyfus Affair, Tom Verlaine, Vincent Duclert historian, Yolande Jansen
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spy vs. spy: wilde for dreyfus
Remembering 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 scene ever since… … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Auguste Herbin, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Carlos Blacker, Chris Healy Irish poet, Col. Jean Sandherr, Eddie Naughton, Emile Zola, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gregor Dallas, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Maurice Paleologue, Maurice Weil, Oscar Wilde, Peter Lefcourt, Richard Dreyfuss, Rowland Strong, The Dreyfus Affair, Yolande Jansen
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dreyfus: baked in psychosis
The Dreyfus affair and the continuing saga of French “identite nationale.” It is imperative not to consign Dreyfus to the scrap heap of history. The time was la belle epoque and the stage was France, liberal democracy, Voltaire , Proust … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Dershowitz, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, Esterhazy spy, Gen. Auguste Mercier, George Whyte, Georges Melies, Hannah Arendt, Leslie Derfler, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Roman Planski Dreyfus, Senator Joseph A. McCarthy, The Dreyfus Affair
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dreyfus: cones of darkness
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Allan Dershowitz, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Col. Hubert Henry, Col. Jean Sandherr, Emile Zola, Gen. Auguste Mercier, George Whyte, Georges Melies, Hannah Arendt, Joseph Heller Catch-22, Leslie Derfler, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Norman Mailer, The Dreyfus Affair
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lest we forget dreyfus
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
dual diction
The massive, gossipy Journal of the Goncourt brothers is one of the longest, most absorbing, and perhaps the most enlightening diary in European literature. It is the brilliantly observed, vividly recorded details that make the essential merit of the Goncourt … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Aby Warburg, Edmond Goncourt, Emile Zola, Goncourt Brothers, Goncourt Journal, Gustave Dore, James Tissot, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Baldwin, Samuel Pepys, William Hickey
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acts of despair in the face of infinity
“Debauchery,” the Goncourts wrote in 1861,”is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.” …The Goncourts wrote prolifically in every genre, but they never had the kind of success they so desperately wanted. They were less admired than … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Algernon Swinburne, Edmond Goncourt, Emile Zola, ernest renan, Geoff Dyer Guardian, Goncourt Brthers, Goncourt Journal, Gustave Faubert, Guy de Maupassant, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules and Edmond Goncourt, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Robert Baldick
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goncourt: red-hot scalpel
The bothers Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, were nobly born. They were rich. But they had the misfortune to be intelligent. Therefore, they were unhappy. They wanted to be famous; they longed to be eminent authors, princes in the realm of … Continue reading
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Tagged Academie Goncourt, Alexandre Dumas, Andre Gide, Edmond Goncourt, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Geoff Dyer Guardian, Gustave Courbet, Gustave Dore, Gustave Flaubert, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Robert Baldick
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compromised complex structures
A de-idealization of the human figure. A coldness. An absence of a humanizing purpose. A bit of spitefulness and the malicious thrown in for effect. Willem de Kooning continues to divide critics and pubic. On on part, a misogynist, sexist … Continue reading