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Why the Dreyfus Affair matters /

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 imprisonm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Begley, Louis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Why X matters.
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  • "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."