Papers concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1826-1908.

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Papers concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1826-1908.

Contains correspondence, writings, notes, legal documents, record books, photographs, drawings, and other material relating to the Dreyfus affair, as well as a logbook of the first year of Dreyfus's imprisonment on Devil's Island, 1895-1896. Contains visiting cards, autographs, telegrams, photographs, political cartoons, and drawings. Among the legal documents are contracts, passes, affidavits, regulations, and summons. Correspondents include Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, Georges Duruy, Fernand Labori, Marie Georges Picquart. Contains manuscripts of articles and books by Zola, Leon Bloy, Maurice Barres, and Georges Clemenceau. Also contains notes on the Zola trial by Zola and Labori.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6766295

Houghton Library

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Labori, Fernand, 1860-1917

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Fernand Labori was a celebrated French lawyer. He was born in Reims and educated at the Faculty of Law of Paris. In his professional life, he defended the accused in some of the most prominent political cases of his day. Among his noted clients was Alfred Dreyfus, who was eventually acquitted of treason. His speeches were regarded as masterpieces of forensic eloquence. ...

Barrés, Maurice 1862-1923

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French author and politician, known for his fierce nationalism. From the description of Letter, 1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122645466 ...

Zola, Émile, 1840-1902

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French writer. From the description of Mon salon, corrected proof, 1866. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80803997 From the description of Letters, 1858-1860, to Paul Cezanne. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84387915 Zola was a French novelist, critic, and political activist. The Dreyfus Affair was the controversy that occurred with the treason conviction (1894) of Capt Alfred Dreyfus (1859c1935), a French general staff officer. Zola w...

Bloy, Léon, 1846-1917

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Duruy, George, 1853-1918

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Clemenceau, Georges, 1841-1929

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Médecin, Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) entra dans la carrière politique au lendemain de la journée révolutionnaire du 4 septembre 1870 et devint maire de Montmartre. Député radical en 1871, il siégea ensuite à l’extrême gauche de l’Assemblée (1876), où, après s’être opposé à la politique de Mac-Mahon, il contribua à provoquer la chute de plusieurs ministères (Gambetta, 1882 ; Jules Ferry, 1885). Après avoir soutenu la candidature de Boulanger au ministère de la Guerre, il dénonça ses prétention...

Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935

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The Dreyfus Affair was the controversy after the treason conviction (1894) of Captain Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), a French general staff officer, who was later acquitted. Fernand Labori was his lawyer. From the description of Correspondence and documents concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1889-1931. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78435080 Alfred Dreyfus was a French army officer, born October 19, 1859 in Mulhouse, France. Dreyfus was educated ...

Picquart, Georges

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Picquart was a good friend of Gustav Mahler. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1911. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864560 ...