6 November 2022 - kudos:

I worry about how often events in my country seem to echo the Dreyfus Affair of late 19th/early 20th century France. As one author put it, truth and justice were set aside by those who perceived them as threats to their vision of the country.

Thinking about the Dreyfus Affair

19 January 2021 - kudos:

This passage about the anti-Semitic Dreyfus Affair (from a book I’m reading on the French Third Republic) is coming to mind today: Long before the end of the Affaire, as the French called it, the question of the guilt of Dreyfus became almost lost in the melee, giving way to a fundamental conflict over the very moral concepts of French society which cast its shadow over the Third Republic from then on to the end.

8 December 2020 - kudos:

Reading about the Dreyfus Affair is spookier in December 2020 than it was back as an undergrad in French Civ II.