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Emile Gallé : le verrier dreyfusard
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ISBN: 2859174044 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris Ed. de l'amateur


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L'église et l'état en France 1905: la crise de la séparation.
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ISBN: 2708956167 9782708956162 Year: 2004 Publisher: Toulouse,


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L'affaire Dreyfus
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ISBN: 2130359752 9782130359753 Year: 1979 Volume: 867 Publisher: Paris PUF


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Ceremonies of bravery : Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair
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ISBN: 1283986582 0191636576 0191748927 0199660824 9780191636578 9780199660827 9781283986588 9780191748929 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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'Ceremonies of Bravery' is a study of the friendship between the prolific writer Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker. The two men met in the 1880s, the period when Wilde was judged by many to be at his best, and Blacker went on to become a trustee of Wilde's marriage settlement.


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Public trials : Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes
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ISBN: 0190649844 0199383766 0199383758 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Should we view moments of democratic failure as revealing the failure of democracy, or as revealing a contested, contingent failing that could have been otherwise? This is the question that Lida Maxwell examines via exploration of three writers' diagnoses of, and responses to, democratic failure in three sets of trial writings: Edmund Burke's writings on the Warren Hastings impeachment in late 18th century Britain, Emile Zola's writings on the Dreyfus Affair in late 19th century France, and Hannah Arendt's writings on the Eichmann trial in 1960s Israel.


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Why the Dreyfus Affair matters
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ISBN: 9780300156454 0300156456 0300125321 9780300125320 1282353497 9781282353497 9780300168143 0300168144 9786612353499 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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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 imprisonment on Devil's Island, a hellhole off the coast of French Guiana. Five years later, the case was overturned, and eventually Dreyfus was completely exonerated. Meanwhile, the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart, pitting Dreyfusards-committed to restoring freedom and honor to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by another-against nationalists, anti-Semites, and militarists who preferred having an innocent man rot to exposing the crimes committed by ministers of war and the army's top brass in order to secure Dreyfus's conviction.Was the Dreyfus Affair merely another instance of the rise in France of a virulent form of anti-Semitism? In Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters, the acclaimed novelist draws upon his legal expertise to create a riveting account of the famously complex case, and to remind us of the interest each one of us has in the faithful execution of laws as the safeguard of our liberties and honor.


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In the Context of His Times
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ISBN: 1618112376 9781618112378 9781618112361 1618112368 Year: 2013 Publisher: Boston, MA

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From the very moment Alfred Dreyfus was placed under arrest for treason and espionage, his entire world was turned upside down, and for the next five years he lived in what he called a phantasmagoria. To keep himself sane, Dreyfus wrote letters to and received letters from his wife Lucie and exercised his intellect through reading the few books and magazines his censors allowed him, writing essays on these and other texts he had read in the past, and working out problems in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. He practiced his English and created strange drawings his prison wardens called architectural or kabbalistic signs. In this volume, Norman Simms explores how Dreyfus kept himself from exploding into madness by reading his essays carefully, placing them in the context of his century, and extrapolating from them the hidden recesses of the Jewish Alsatian background he shared with the Dreyfus family and Lucie Hadamard.

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