The Affair The Case of Alfred Dreyfus

by Bredin, Jean-Denis

• ISBN13: 9780807611753
• ISBN10: 0807611751
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-03-17
• Publisher: George Braziller Inc.

Summary

On an Autumn Morning in 1894, Captain Dreyfus was summoned to appear for a routine inspection; instead, as he took down a letter dictated by a senior officer, he was summarily accused of high treason. So began a twelve-year series of events that included his imprisonment on Devil's Island, the publication of Emile Zola's passionate J'Accuse, the Rennes retrial, and the pardon and final rehabilitation of 1906. As the Dreyfus case turned into the Affair, the history of a single military career came to display the conflicts that were tearing a country apart: military defeat, anti-Semitic furor, and the place of traditional values in a country still reeling from the turbulence of the French Revolution. Told with an historian's insight and a novelist's skill, The Affair makes fascinating and informative reading about one of the most celebrated episodes in modern history. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Prologue
Judas on Parade	3	(8)
I: THE TRAITOR DREYFUS
A Child's Pledge	11	(3)
The Army of Revenge	14	(5)
Intelligent, Zealous, Conscientious, Quite Active	19	(4)
A Jew	23	(9)
The Republic of Opportunists	32	(8)
The Ordinary Track	40	(7)
Maximilien and Alexandrine	47	(4)
A Mysterious Visitor	51	(3)
The Dictation	54	(4)
The Bordereau	58	(7)
The Conspirators	65	(5)
The Capers of Bertillon	70	(8)
This Jew Protected by Gemany	78	(5)
I Am Approaching the End of My Suffering	83	(9)
This Man Is the Traitor	92	(6)
The Affair Is Over	98	(7)
II: LONG LIVE ESTERHAZY
The Legend of a Confession	105	(5)
The Retirement of Mercier	110	(4)
Don't Do That; It's Not Nice	114	(6)
A Fabulous Gambler	120	(4)
Dreyfus the Deportee	124	(10)
The First Jew to Rise on Behalf of the Jew	134	(6)
The ``Petit Bleu''	140	(8)
I Was Terrified	148	(4)
An Idealist?	152	(6)
The Serenity of France	158	(3)
Keep the Two Affairs Separate	161	(9)
The Patriotic Forgery	170	(8)
Speranza	178	(3)
From Colonel to Lawyer, Lawyer to Senator	181	(6)
I Have a Closetful	187	(9)
My Dear Friend, Just Listen to Me	196	(7)
Help Me, My Prince, to My Rescue!	203	(10)
I Speak to You as from the Grave	213	(4)
Let Us Not Allow Ourselves to be Devoured	217	(14)
They Would Not Have Done as Much for a Poor Man	231	(6)
Long Live Esterhazy	237	(8)
III: TWO FRANCES
J'Accuse	245	(13)
The Question Will Not Be Raised	258	(17)
Logicians of the Absolute	275	(10)
The Fury of France	285	(14)
Thou Shalt Not Follow the Multitude	299	(3)
A Republican Majority	302	(4)
All This Is Going to End Badly	306	(7)
We Need a Lightning Bolt	313	(11)
I Am Doomed; They Are Abandoning Me ...	324	(8)
More Stupid than Cowardly, More Cowardly than Stupid	332	(14)
To Roast the Jews	346	(7)
And So We Arrive at the Last Stage	353	(6)
IV: TRUTH ON THE MARCH
Bar Girls	359	(7)
To the Elysee, General	366	(12)
Appealed and Annulled	378	(6)
Panama the First	384	(6)
Silence in the Ranks	390	(7)
To Rennes, to Rennes, Gentlemen of the Army	397	(5)
Living Mauled Flesh	402	(5)
The Final Battle	407	(15)
Yes, the Accused Is Guilty	422	(7)
The Incident Is Over	429	(9)
Forgetting	438	(14)
A Moment in the Conscience of Humanity	452	(4)
On Punctured Drums	456	(8)
Marching in Step	464	(5)
France's Premier Cop	469	(6)
Innocence Proclaimed	475	(6)
I Name You Knight of the Legion of Honor	481	(5)
I Was Only an Artillery Officer	486	(10)
The Last Survivor	496	(9)
EPILOGUE IN THE MIRROR OF THE AFFAIR
From Legend to Legend	505	(10)
The Long Wave ...	515	(16)
The Dividing Line	531	(18)
Notes	549	(60)
Bibliography	609	(10)
Index	619