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Cartoons of the Dreyfus Affair. Mark Bryant looks at the way caricaturists viewed the scandal engulfing France at the end of the 19th century. Mark Bryant | Published in History Today Volume 57 Issue 9 September 2007.
The Dreyfus affair (French: affaire Dreyfus, pronounced [afɛːʁ dʁɛfys]) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906.
Political cartoons from the time show that his fears were justified. One of them, called “Allegory – the Dreyfus Affair,” depicted a mask of Zola, behind which stands a grinning, satanic caricature of a Jew with a big nose.
6 gru 2018 · The Dreyfus Affair was a confrontation between two views of what sort of society France should be. Commonly called l’Affaire in France, it was the case of a Jewish army officer, Alfred Dreyfus, who was wrongly convicted of spying for Germany in 1894. Dreyfus was later pardoned in 1899.
The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal which took place between 1894 and 1906. The Affair is an example of the growing antisemitism across Europe in the modern period. In 1894, a document offering military secrets to the Germans was found in a bin and sent to the French Secret Service.
In 1889, Drumont founded the Ligue Nationale antisémitique de France and promoted caricaturist Adolphe Willette as a candidate for Montmartre in that year’s elections. Chanteclair’s illustration represents Drumont as a colossus whose intellectual and physical prowess dwarfs the powerless Dreyfus.
The notorious scandal of injustice known as the Dreyfus Affair trig- gered an antisemitic reaction in France in the late nineteenth century, a subject thoroughly studied and analyzed by a multitude of scholars.