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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.
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 (French: affaire Dreyfus, pronounced [afɛːʁ dʁɛfys]) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906.
24 paź 2020 · The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal that ran from 1894 to 1906 - and has become shorthand for miscarriage of justice and anti-Semitism.
8 lip 2021 · A political cartoon from 1898 (the period of the Esterhazy and Zola trials) titled “La vraie débâcle” (The real debacle). Alfred Dreyfus is shown here with a grotesquely exaggerated nose and a German helmet poking out of his hat. His brother Mathieu (with devil ears) is embracing Zola.
10 cze 2010 · The Dreyfus Affair gave an unexpected opportunity to Catholics and militarists to attack the Republic. They argued that it was run by a band of Jews and Freemasons who were betraying the French nation. Far from being acclaimed as a visionary, Zola was himself put on trial for political libel.
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.
