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Article: The Dreyfus Affair: 'J'accuse' and Other Writings.
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- June 22, 1998
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The Dreyfus Affair: `J'accuse' and Other Writings. By Emile Zola. Edited, with an introduction, by Main Pages. Translated by Eleanor Levieux. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 208. $32.50.)
Emile Zola's involvement in the Dreyfus Affair began one-hundred years ago with an article published in La Figaro in November 1897 defending Auguste Scheurer-Kestner, then vice-president of the French Senate, in his decision to lead a campaign for the rehabilitation of a Jewish army officer wrongly accused of espionage. Over the next four years, until his death in 1902, the celebrated author became not only the most famous spokesperson for the ...