The history of the Dreyfus Affair from 1894 to the present day.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 18706 |
| Format | 16x25 cm |
| Détails | 1504 p. in two volumes in a slipcase. |
| Publication | Paris, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
"The more this affair is over, the more it is obvious that it will never end." Charles Péguy In the extensive bibliography devoted to the Dreyfus Affair, there are few histories of the event. Alongside the great synthesis by Jean-Denis Bredin, and the précis published in Livre de Poche (Cahm), La Découverte (Duclert), Gallimard (Birnbaum), Que-sais-je? (Miquel), the only true history of the Affair goes back to Joseph Reinach, published at the beginning of the 20th century and recently reissued. He is the "essential reference, but an incomplete reference (we have learned a lot since 1908) and often debatable insofar as, as an actor in the event, Joseph Reinach sometimes takes sides that are at the very least debatable or that we know today to be contrary to historical truth. The great history of the Affair therefore still remains to be written... The project of a new History of the Dreyfus Affair aims to offer a closer vision of what the event was and to go beyond it to observe its echoes and representations up to 2012. To do this, it is based on a significant amount of documentation: reading everything published during the Affair, after the Affair (and up to today), the systematic analysis of all the press published between 1894 and 1908 and then of some key periods (the Occupation, for example), the funds of the departmental archives and, above all, archives that have been little or not at all exploited (Joseph Reinach papers, Dreyfus family, Salomon Reinach, Paul Meyer, Gaston Paris, Scheurer-Kestner, Dreyfus family, Bernard Lazare, Zadoc Kahn, Arconati-Visconti, Havet, Barrès, Poincaré, Zola, Waldeck-Rousseau, etc.) or unpublished (Billot papers, Dreyfus' notes for his trials, letters from Zola to Labori, Lipschutz, Desachy, Mathieu Dreyfus funds, souvenirs and memoirs of Jourdy, Krantz, Bard, Forzinetti, Bertulus, du Paty de Clam, Demange, Ménard, Ribot, Dardenne, Grimaux, Caillaux papers).
"The more this affair is over, the more it is obvious that it will never end." Charles Péguy In the extensive bibliography devoted to the Dreyfus Affair, there are few histories of the event. Alongside the great synthesis by Jean-Denis Bredin, and the précis published in Livre de Poche (Cahm), La Découverte (Duclert), Gallimard (Birnbaum), Que-sais-je? (Miquel), the only true history of the Affair goes back to Joseph Reinach, published at the beginning of the 20th century and recently reissued. He is the "essential reference, but an incomplete reference (we have learned a lot since 1908) and often debatable insofar as, as an actor in the event, Joseph Reinach sometimes takes sides that are at the very least debatable or that we know today to be contrary to historical truth. The great history of the Affair therefore still remains to be written... The project of a new History of the Dreyfus Affair aims to offer a closer vision of what the event was and to go beyond it to observe its echoes and representations up to 2012. To do this, it is based on a significant amount of documentation: reading everything published during the Affair, after the Affair (and up to today), the systematic analysis of all the press published between 1894 and 1908 and then of some key periods (the Occupation, for example), the funds of the departmental archives and, above all, archives that have been little or not at all exploited (Joseph Reinach papers, Dreyfus family, Salomon Reinach, Paul Meyer, Gaston Paris, Scheurer-Kestner, Dreyfus family, Bernard Lazare, Zadoc Kahn, Arconati-Visconti, Havet, Barrès, Poincaré, Zola, Waldeck-Rousseau, etc.) or unpublished (Billot papers, Dreyfus' notes for his trials, letters from Zola to Labori, Lipschutz, Desachy, Mathieu Dreyfus funds, souvenirs and memoirs of Jourdy, Krantz, Bard, Forzinetti, Bertulus, du Paty de Clam, Demange, Ménard, Ribot, Dardenne, Grimaux, Caillaux papers).