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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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