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Why the Dreyfus Affair matters / Louis Begley.
| Author/creator | Begley, Louis |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, |
| Description | xvi, 249 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | [Why X matters] Why X matters. ^A708195 |
| Contents | "If they haven't been ordered to convict him, he will be acquitted this evening" -- "The past is never dead" -- "What do you care if that Jew stays on Devil's Island?" -- "The truth marches on and nothing will stop it" -- "Dreyfus was rehabilitated, Picquart became Minster of War, and nobody said boo" -- Cast of characters -- Chronology. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | Series statement from jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009005140 |
| ISBN | 9780300125320 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0300125321 (alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |