L'affaire Dreyfuss
Course
In London
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
London
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Different dates available
In these 6 sessions we will follow the main developments of the “affaire” from the arrest and the public degradation of the Captain up to his rehabilitation.
We will understand how France, quite a patriotic and conservative country at the time overcame it’s anti-semitic prejudices for finally consolidate it’s Republican identity.
Along Captain Dreyfus we will meet several French personalities, Emile Zola of course, but also Dreyfus’ wife Lucie, Georges Clémenceau, Esterhazy ( the “true” guilty one ), Jean Jaurès and others.
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About this course
Understand and explain how the “ Affaire ” shaped the modern France we know today, a Republic and Democratic society never shy of a vibrant intellectual and moral debate.
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Reviews
Subjects
- Rehabilitation
Course programme
- The arrest and the condemnation of the Captain
- Exiled on the “ Ile du Diable”
- A perversion of justice and a military cover up
- Emile Zola and his “ J’accuse ”
- A divided France along prejudicial and political lines
- The long road for trues, freedom and rehabilitation.
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L'affaire Dreyfuss