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Article: France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History.(Review)
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- Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
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- March 22, 2000
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Michael Burns. France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 210. Cloth, $39.95; ISBN 0-312-21813-3.
One driven to bed by a chronic illness endures both pain and the prolongation of time; one who suffers injustice might wait long years for a remedy. So it was in 1894 with Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew in the French army whom fellow officers targeted. His arrest resulted from the acquisition of a military memorandum (bordereau) imputed to him on tenuous grounds as the basis for a charge of treason. Arrested, accused of high treason, tried, and convicted, he went to prison.
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