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Date 1894 - 1906

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Dreyfus Affair
Zola, Émile
Court-martial of Alfred Dreyfus
“J'Accuse”
Antisemitic caricature
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Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus
French military officer
René Waldeck-Rousseau; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
René Waldeck-Rousseau
French politician
Émile Loubet
president of France
Charles-Alexandre Dupuy, engraving by Navellier, c. 1893
Charles-Alexandre Dupuy
French politician
Labori
Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori
French lawyer
Félix Faure, engraving after a photograph
Félix Faure
president of France
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
French military officer