Existing comment:
The Dreyfus Affair / France 1894-1906: A one-hundred-year-old event with contemporary relevance; how the media manipulated public opinion into hostility and hysteria, how the military scapegoated and convicted an innocent man and how courageous individuals pursued justice to exonerate and free him.
France in the 1890s: A Climate of Anti-Semitism:
The French Revolution (1789) conferred rights of citizenship on Jews, enabling them to enter the nation's social and professional life. Although currents of anti-Semitism were present in Europe, particularly in French society and politics, they became more openly aggressive and better organized in the last quarter of the 19th century. Depicting Jews as exaggerated stereotypes was a common practice. |