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9780300168143

Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300168143

  • ISBN10:

    0300168144

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2010-09-28
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

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 attache 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 Dreyfusardscommitted to restoring freedom and honor to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by anotheragainst 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. Was the Dreyfus Affair merely another instance of the rise in France of a virulent form of anti-Semitism? InWhy the Dreyfus Affair Matters, the acclaimed novelist draws upon his legal expertise to create a riveting account of the famously complex case, and to remind us of the interest each one of us has in the faithful execution of laws as the safeguard of our liberties and honor.

Author Biography

Louis Begley is a bestselling novelist and a lawyer who retired after a 45-year career as partner in a prominent law firm. His fiction includes Wartime Lies, About Schmidt, and Matters of Honor.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xv
"If they haven't been ordered to convict him, he will be acquitted this evening"p. 1
"The past is never dead"p. 47
"What do you care if that Jew stays on Devil's Island?"p. 83
"The truth marches on and nothing will stop it"p. 125
"Dreyfus was rehabilitated, Picquart became minister of war, and nobody said boo"p. 187
Cast of Charactersp. 205
Chronologyp. 215
Notesp. 229
Indexp. 239
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