Authors: Michael Burns
ISBN-13: 9780312111670, ISBN-10: 0312111673
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Date Published: November 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Michael Burns (Ph.D., Yale University) is professor of modern European history at Mount Holyoke College and has taught at Yale University and the École des Hautes Études. His publications on the Dreyfus affair include Rural Society and French Politics: Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair (1984) and Dreyfus: A Family Affair, from the French Revolution to the Holocaust (1992), which was awarded the Prix Bernard Lecache of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism. Burns serves as advisory editor for the Blackwell series New Perspectives on the Past.
The Dreyfus affair — the infamous account of Jewish army officer and French citizen, Alfred Dreyfus, unjustly convicted of treason in 1894 — was the most significant political and social crisis of fin-de-siècle Europe. In the first book designed to introduce students to the broad outlines and significant legacies of the affair, the author deftly interweaves text with documents, tracing the course of events. He highlights the many issues connected with the case, including anti-Semitism, militant nationalism, socialism, the birth of modern Zionism, and the separation of church and state. Sixty-six documents are embedded in the narrative, offering students a broad range of sources to examine, including newspaper editorials, letters, trial testimony, and diary entries. A list of the principal characters is included in the appendices.
Introduces students to the most significant political and social crises of late 19th-century Europe--the unjust 1894 conviction of Jewish army officer and French citizen Alfred Dreyfus for treason. Interweaves explanatory and interpretive text with documents to highlight such issues as anti-Semitism, militant nationalism, socialism, the birth of modern Zionism, the separation of the church and state, and the emergence of intellectuals into the political arena. Includes a chronology. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
1 | The Epoch | 1 |
Maurice Barres, Election Campaign Speech, November 1, 1898 | 7 | |
La Libre Parole, Jews in the Army, May 23, 1892 Camille Dreyfus and Charles Freycinet, Exchange in the Chamber of Deputies, June 25, 1892 | 13 | |
Rabbi Zadoc Kahn, Funeral Oration, June 26, 1892 | 15 | |
Military Personnel Record of Alfred Dreyfus, 1882-1892 | 17 | |
2 | The Arrest | 21 |
The Bordereau, 1894 | 22 | |
Alfred Dreyfus, Arrest and Interrogation, October 15, 1894 | 27 | |
Interrogation of Alfred Dreyfus, October 18-November 29, 1894 | 30 | |
La Libre Parole, High Treason, November 1, 1894 | 33 | |
Mathieu Dreyfus, Account of the Court-Martial Dossier, December 1894 | 37 | |
Alfred Dreyfus, Letter to Lucie Dreyfus, December 18, 1894 | 38 | |
3 | Trial and Exile | 40 |
Alfred Dreyfus, Witnesses for the Prosecution, December 1894 | 41 | |
The Verdict, December 22, 1894 | 43 | |
Maurice Paleologue, My Secret Diary of the Dreyfus Case, December 23, 1894 | 44 | |
The Times of London, December 24, 1894 | 46 | |
Lucie Dreyfus, Letter to Alfred Dreyfus, January 2, 1895 | 49 | |
Alfred Dreyfus, Letter to Lucie Dreyfus, January 2, 1895 | 50 | |
Leon Daudet, The Punishment, January 6, 1895 | 51 | |
Theodor Herzl, Account of the Dreyfus Degradation, January 6, 1895 | 54 | |
Alfred Dreyfus, Devil's Island Diary, April 14, 1895 | 59 | |
4 | Treasons and Strategems | 61 |
The Petit Bleu, 1896 | 62 | |
Severine (Caroline Remy), Memories of Esterhazy, January 1898 | 64 | |
Havas Press Agency, Dreyfus Escapes! September 3, 1896 | 67 | |
Lucie Dreyfus, Petition to the Chamber of Deputies, September 18, 1896 | 68 | |
The Henry Forgery, October 1896 | 71 | |
Mathieu Dreyfus, The Clairvoyant and the President, February 1895 | 72 | |
Bernard Lazare, A Judicial Error, November 1896 | 76 | |
Esperance, Letter to Esterhazy, October 1897 | 80 | |
Mathieu Dreyfus, Letter in Le Figaro, November 16, 1897 | 82 | |
Emile Zola, M. Scheurer-Kestner, November 25, 1897 | 84 | |
5 | J'Accuse | 87 |
Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, The Uhlan Letter, November 28, 1897 | 88 | |
Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, Letter to General de Pellieux, December 2, 1897 | 90 | |
Emile Zola, J'Accuse!, January 13, 1898 | 93 | |
Le Siecle, Call to Women, March 25-27, 1898 | 112 | |
Gyp, Les Izolatres, March 3, 1898 | 115 | |
Jean Jaures, The Socialist Concern, 1898 | 118 | |
Charles Maurras, First Blood, September 6-7, 1898 | 122 | |
6 | High Courts | 124 |
Maurice Paleologue, My Secret Diary of the Dreyfus Case, September 26, 1898 | 126 | |
Georges Picquart, I Have Had My Say, September 21, 1898 | 128 | |
The Henry Monument, December 1898-January 1899 | 130 | |
Alfred Dreyfus, Letter to Lucie Dreyfus, June 1, 1899 | 137 | |
Announcement of the Second Court-Martial, June 5, 1899 | 138 | |
Lucie Dreyfus, Letter to Alfred Dreyfus, July 1, 1899 | 139 | |
G. W. Steevens, The Tragedy of Dreyfus, August 7, 1899 | 144 | |
Jean-Bernard, Impressions of a Spectator, September 9, 1899 | 148 | |
7 | The World's Affair | 150 |
Lord Russell of Killowen, Report to Queen Victoria, September 16, 1899 | 152 | |
Joseph Reinach, The Pardon, September 10-13, 1899 | 156 | |
Emile Zola, The Fifth Act, September 12, 1899 | 160 | |
Alfred Dreyfus, Declaration of Innocence, September 19, 1899 | 163 | |
Minister of War Gaston de Galliffet, Proclamation to the Army, September 21, 1899 | 163 | |
8 | Encores and Legacies | 164 |
Anatole France, Eulogy for Emile Zola, October 5, 1902 | 167 | |
Charles Peguy, Reflections on Bernard Lazare, 1910 | 169 | |
Alfred Dreyfus, Petition to the Minister of Justice, November 25, 1903 | 173 | |
Ballot-Beaupre, Annulment of the Rennes Verdict, July 12, 1906 | 176 | |
Alfred Dreyfus, Painful Reverie, July 20, 1906 | 177 | |
Sarah Bernhardt, Letter to Alfred Dreyfus, June 6, 1908 | 180 | |
Leon Blum, Memories of the Affair, 1935 | 185 | |
Colonel Paul Gaujac, A Theory of Innocence, January 31, 1994 | 189 | |
Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic, Letter on the Centenary of "J'Accuse," January 1998 | 191 | |
Appendix | Chronology of Events Related to the Dreyfus Affair (1859-1998) | 193 |
Appendix | List of Principal Characters | 198 |
Appendix | Selected Bibliography | 201 |
Index | 205 |