The Hypocrisy of Justice in the Belle Epoque

The Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s and the violent controversies that surrounded it appeared to pass two very different judgments on the France of the Third Republic. The outcome o the trial-Captain Dreyfus convicted without guilt and the real traitor acquitted despite guilt-demonstrated without questi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, Benjamin F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Trials.
Female offenders.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Criminelles > France.
Proces > France.
Female offenders > France.
Criminal justice, Administration of > France.
Trials > France.
France.
France > Histoire > 1870-1940 (3e Republique)
France > History > Third Republic, 1870-1940.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s and the violent controversies that surrounded it appeared to pass two very different judgments on the France of the Third Republic. The outcome o the trial-Captain Dreyfus convicted without guilt and the real traitor acquitted despite guilt-demonstrated without question the extraordinary hypocrisy of the military justice system. But the furor raised by Dreyfus' conviction and the agitation for his release suggested that the injustice of the courts' verdict was uncharacteristic of French society; that for France as a nation the rendering of justice was paramount.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9780807153789

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