TODAY IN HISTORY
An e-pal bltaverna reminds me:
Day in history
13 January 1898
Acting on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus, French influential novelist Emile Zola issued his famous “J’Accuse” letter in Clemenceau’s paper L’Aurore condemning the French establishment in the Dreyfus Affair.
In 1894 French Captain Dreyfus was falsely accused of spying for Prussia and convicted of treason in 1895. He was publicly degraded at the Military School Honour Court in front of 20,000 people and deported to Devil’s Island.
The conviction was exposed as an anti-Semitic plot by activists such as Zola.
Finally, in 1906, Dreyfus was exonerated of his charges and allowed back in the army.
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