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Edition of the Polish Życie reporting on Zola's letter and the Dreyfus affair. Alfred Dreyfus was a French army officer from a prosperous Jewish family. [4] In 1894, while an artillery captain for the General Staff of France, Dreyfus was suspected of providing secret military information to the German government.
The Dreyfus affair (French: affaire Dreyfus, pronounced [afɛːʁ dʁɛfys]) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. The scandal began in December 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus , a 35-year-old Alsatian French artillery officer of Jewish descent , was wrongfully convicted of ...
The sentence of Rennes left unsettled several cases more or less connected with the Dreyfus case: proceedings against Picquart for infraction of the law against espionage; an action for libel by Henry's widow against Joseph Reinach; an action against Zola (whose condemnation by default was not definitive); eventual proceedings against General ...
1930 (in German) The Dreyfus Case, German Film by Richard Oswald – Black and White – 115 min; 1931 (in English) The Dreyfus Case, English Film by F Kraemer and Milton Rosmer – Black and White – 90 min; 1937 (in English) The Life of Émile Zola, American Film by William Dieterle – Black and White – 90 min
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (/ ˈ z oʊ l ə /, [1] [2] also US: / z oʊ ˈ l ɑː /; [3] [4] French: [emil zɔla]; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) [5] was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. [6]
The scandal began with the trial and conviction of Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus was sentenced to life in prison on Devil's Island. Numerous efforts were made to obtain a new trial, and Dreyfus supporter Emile Zola was himself tried for defamation for statements made against the accusers of Dreyfus. Legal proceedings against other similarly accused ...
After the trial of Émile Zola for publishing his 1898 open letter J'Accuse…!, Picquart was himself accused of forging the note that had convinced him of Esterhazy's guilt. He was then arrested for forgery and was waiting for a court-martial, while the French Court of Cassation was reviewing the Dreyfus case. After the second court-martial ...
The Life of Emile Zola, a 1937 film starring Joseph Schildkraut as Dreyfus, who won best actor in a supporting role at the Academy Awards; I Accuse!, a 1958 film starring José Ferrer as Dreyfus; An Officer and a Spy, film by Roman Polanski (2019)