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The court-martial of Alfred Dreyfus, illustration from Le Petit Journal, December 1894. Zola, Émile The second court-martial of Alfred Dreyfus, illustration from Vanity Fair, Nov. 23, 1899. Front page of the newspaper L'Aurore, January 13, 1898, with the open letter “J'accuse” written by Émile Zola about the Dreyfus affair. anti-Semitic caricature
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Date 1894 - 1906

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The court-martial of Alfred Dreyfus, illustration from Le Petit Journal, December 1894.
Zola, Émile
The second court-martial of Alfred Dreyfus, illustration from Vanity Fair, Nov. 23, 1899.
Front page of the newspaper L'Aurore, January 13, 1898, with the open letter “J'accuse” written by Émile Zola about the Dreyfus affair.
anti-Semitic caricature
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Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus
French military officer
René Waldeck-Rousseau; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
René Waldeck-Rousseau
French politician
Émile Loubet
president of France
Charles-Alexandre Dupuy, engraving by Navellier, c. 1893
Charles-Alexandre Dupuy
French politician
Félix Faure, engraving after a photograph
Félix Faure
president of France
Labori
Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori
French lawyer
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
French military officer