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The Prisoner

Part IX: Dreyfus Returns to France

John Ganz
Mar 01, 2021
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Illustration of the Dryefus Trial in Vanity Fair

I’ve been focusing quite a bit about the social and political forces in France, but I’d like to return to the man at the center of the Affair, Captain Alfred Dreyfus himself. At this stage in the Affair he was largely forgotten as an individual. “We were no longer fighting, wrote Léon Blum, the future firs…

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