1st Edition

The Dreyfus Affair in French Society and Politics

By Eric Cahm Copyright 1996
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

The Dreyfus affair remains one of the most famous miscarriages of justice in modern times. Eric Cahm's study does justice to the human drama, whilst also throwing light on the wider society and politics of the Third Republic in the traumatic years after the Franco-Prussian War. This wide-ranging survey - the only short modern account in English anchors the Affair in its full social and political... Read more
1. The First Dreyfus Affair: November 1894- January 1895.  2. The Search for the Real Culprit and the Beginnings of the Campaign for a Retrial.  3. The Crisis From J'Accuse...! to Cavaignac's Speech: January to July 1898.  4. The Death of Henry, the Review, the Rennes Trial and Dreyfus's Pardon.  5. Retrial and Pardon: The 1894 Judgement is Set Aside.  Epilogue.  Footnotes.  Further Reading.  Index

Biography

Cahm, Eric