L'Affaire Dreyfus: L'Iniquitie.

Partisan Review | June 22, 2002| | Copyright

By Georges Clemenceau. Memoire du Livre. 159 francs.

EVERY SO OFTEN FRANCE PRODUCES one of those larger-than-life characters who differs so strikingly from the average that statues (and caricatures) come easy. In literature, Balzac, Hugo, and George Sand are obvious examples; in politics, there is the Tiger, sobriquet of Georges Clemenceau, a physician by training who, after a very American career as teacher and newspaperman, got himself elected to parliament--where he was more radical than Radical Socialist, and a plague to many timorous cabinets. (Nor do we forget ...


        
    


                
                
                    

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