'J'accuse ... !': cartoons of the Dreyfus affair: Mark Bryant looks at the way caricaturists viewed the scandal engulfing France at the end of the 19th century.(BEHIND THE LINES)(Alfred Dreyfus' wrongful conviction)

History Today | September 1, 2007| | Copyright

THE TRIAL Or CAPTAIN DREYFUS of the French Army was a major cause celebre at the end of the nineteenth century, pitting the Catholic church, royalists and the military against republicans, radicals and socialists. Not only did it generate a huge amount of column inches in the press, both in France and overseas, but it also led to hundreds of cartoons and caricatures of the leading figures in the case. The worlds of art and literature, like the general public at large, were fiercely partisan in their views on the alleged German spy, and the debate involved such figures as ...

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