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ZOLA, Emile (1840-1902). 'J'accuse ...! Lettre au Prsident de la Rpublique' in L'Aurore, deuxime anne, no. 87, Paris: 13 January, 1898.
2 (622 x 455mm). 4pp., folded. (Browned, worn along folds, including 210mm. fold break in the first leaf.)
Zola's famous open letter in defence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian jew who in 1894 had been convicted of spying for the Germans, degraded, cashiered, and sentenced to solitary confinement for life on Devil's Island. Addressed to the President of the French Republic, Flix Faure, it accuses the war office of hushing up material evidence and concealing a grave miscarrriage of justice. Each of the final paragraphs denouncing the army begins with the words 'J'accuse.' Although Zola was prosecuted for libel and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, he escaped to England and his trial aroused further support for Dreyfus who was pardoned in 1899, though the sentence passed by the Cour de Cassation was not finally reversed until 1906. The extraordinary episode was transformed into fiction in Zola's Verit (1903).
2 (622 x 455mm). 4pp., folded. (Browned, worn along folds, including 210mm. fold break in the first leaf.)
Zola's famous open letter in defence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian jew who in 1894 had been convicted of spying for the Germans, degraded, cashiered, and sentenced to solitary confinement for life on Devil's Island. Addressed to the President of the French Republic, Flix Faure, it accuses the war office of hushing up material evidence and concealing a grave miscarrriage of justice. Each of the final paragraphs denouncing the army begins with the words 'J'accuse.' Although Zola was prosecuted for libel and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, he escaped to England and his trial aroused further support for Dreyfus who was pardoned in 1899, though the sentence passed by the Cour de Cassation was not finally reversed until 1906. The extraordinary episode was transformed into fiction in Zola's Verit (1903).