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Tag Archives: The Dreyfus Affair
secret agent: great game ethos
The cult of the secret agent. Despit the bling and action, the secret agent poses a menace to the open society… …The Great Game ethos of the professionals was reflected in the spy novels and a little later in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Colonel Alfred Redl, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Erskine Childers, Hannah Adams Summary History of New England, James Fenimore Cooper, John Buchan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rudyard Kipling, The Dreyfus Affair, William Le Queux
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dreyfus: when was the fix not in?
Unfortunately, the after-shocks of the Dreyfus Affair are still with us, over a hundred years until he was finally exonerated in 1906. The dilemma of government secrecy in the in the so-called national interest and the whole ugly stench of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Charles Maurras, Claude Monet, Edouard Drumont, Emile Zola, Jacqueline Rose LRB, Jeffrey Mehlman, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Leslie Derfler, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Piers Paul Read Dreyfus, Ruth Harris Begley, The Dreyfus Affair, Theodore Herzl Dreyfus, Vincent Duclert Dreyfus
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dreyfus: justice better late than forever
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. It was a long time ago and the stage was France, but the chief actors in the drama, as part of an ushering in of the age of modernism, have remained on the political scene … Continue reading
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Tagged Edgar Degas, Emile Zola, Frederick Brown Dreyfus, Gen. Jean Sandherr, Leslie Derfler, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Lt. Col. Marie Georges Picquart, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Maurice Weil, Peter Lefcourt Dreyfus, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Marie Waldeck-Rousseau, Piers Paul Read Dreyfus, Ruth harris Dreyfus, The Dreyfus Affair, Vincent Duclert
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Charles Maurras, Edouard Drumont La Libre Parole, Edward Said, Emile Zola, Joseph Schildkraut, Jules Guerin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, The Dreyfus Affair, William James
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dreyfus…once bitten twice lie
In a disconcerting manner, the Dreyfus case in France almost one hundred twenty years ago remains pertinent given our own opaque actions of government under the pretext of national security and the national interest. What is ironic is that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Casimir-Perier, Chaim Soutine, Emile Loubet president Republic, Emile Zola, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Joseph Henry Dreyfus Affair, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Lt. Col. Marie Georges Picquart, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Thomas Dreyfus, Paul Deroulede, President Felix Faure, Ruth harris Dreyfus, The Dreyfus Affair, Vincent Duclert Dreyfus
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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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Tagged Bernard Lazare anarchist, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Edgar Degas, Edouard Drumont La Libre Parole, Emile Zola, Ernest May collector of Degas paintings, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Thomas Dreyfus, Peter Lefcourt, Pierre Bonnard artist, Piers Paul Read Dreyfus, Ruth harris Dreyfus, Siegfried Thalheimer historian, The Dreyfus Affair
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Dreyfus: big lies and big sticks
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. It was the end of the nineteenth century and his exoneration in 1906 coincided with the birth of modernism. The double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians and anti-Semites posing as patriots have remained on the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Auguste Scheurer-Kestner, Bernard Lazare anarchist, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Charles Peguy, Emile Zola, Henri Biva paintings, Jean Jaures French Socialist, Joseph Reinach, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major Georges Picquart, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Marc Chagall, Marcel Proust, Marcel Thomas Dreyfus, Maurice Weil, Piers Paul Read Dreyfus, Ruth Harris author, Siegfried Thalheimer historian, The Dreyfus Affair, Vincent Duclert historian
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dreyfus: the great e-scape-goat
The hiding of evidence on the basis of the interests of national security has been with us ever since.The Dreyfus Affair never goes away… …It was the classic interactionof chance and necessity that set the wheels of truth in motion. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Chaim Soutine, Col. Max von Schwartzkoppen, Emile Zola, Ferdinand Brunetiere, Franz Kafka, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gen. Jean Baptiste Billot, Hannah Arendt Dreyfus, Leslie Derfler, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Lt. Col. Marie Georges Picquart, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Thomas Dreyfus, Pierre Bonnard artist, Roman Polanski Dreyfus, Ruth Harris author, The Dreyfus Affair
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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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Tagged Bernard Lazare anarchist, Edouard Drumont La Libre Parole, Emile Zola, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Henry Lerolle, Jean Jaures French Socialist, Jules Cheret art, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Leslie Derfler, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Marcel Thomas Dreyfus, Piers Paul Read, Roman Polanski Dreyfus movie, Ruth Harris author, Siegfried Thalheimer historian, The Dreyfus Affair, Vincent Duclert historian
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