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ZOLA, Emile (1840-1902). 'J'accuse ...! Lettre au Président de la République' in L'Aurore, deuxième année, no. 87, Paris: 13 January 1898.
Zola's famous open letter in defence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew who in 1894 had been convicted of spying for the Germans, degraded, cashiered, and sentenced to solitary confinement for life on Devil's Island. Addressed to the President of the French Republic, Félix Faure, it accuses the war office of hushing up material evidence and concealing a grave miscarriage of justice. Each of the final paragraphs denouncing the army begins with the words 'J'accuse.' Although Zola was prosecuted for libel and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, he escaped to England and his trial aroused further support for Dreyfus who was pardoned in 1899, though the sentence passed by the Cour de Cassation was not finally reversed until 1906. The extraordinary episode was transformed into fiction in Zola's Verité (1903).
Folio (626 x 460mm). 4pp. (Evenly browned, front page with small patch of loss at head of third and fourth text columns, repair to lower right hand-margin just into text with loss of a few letters, 2 tape marks into title both approx. 90mm long with associated tears, one with loss of a few letters to subtitle, 40mm tape mark into date at top right-hand corner, 90mm tape mark affecting second and third columns, the tape causing these marks has been removed and again expertly repaired on verso, but with loss of some letters on second page, 3 horizontal creasefolds with some associated expertly repaired tears with associated losses to a few letters through all leaves but heavily affecting text on page 2, second leaf reinforced at fore-edge, a couple of minor marginal chips to bottom margin.)
Zola's famous open letter in defence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew who in 1894 had been convicted of spying for the Germans, degraded, cashiered, and sentenced to solitary confinement for life on Devil's Island. Addressed to the President of the French Republic, Félix Faure, it accuses the war office of hushing up material evidence and concealing a grave miscarriage of justice. Each of the final paragraphs denouncing the army begins with the words 'J'accuse.' Although Zola was prosecuted for libel and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, he escaped to England and his trial aroused further support for Dreyfus who was pardoned in 1899, though the sentence passed by the Cour de Cassation was not finally reversed until 1906. The extraordinary episode was transformed into fiction in Zola's Verité (1903).
Folio (626 x 460mm). 4pp. (Evenly browned, front page with small patch of loss at head of third and fourth text columns, repair to lower right hand-margin just into text with loss of a few letters, 2 tape marks into title both approx. 90mm long with associated tears, one with loss of a few letters to subtitle, 40mm tape mark into date at top right-hand corner, 90mm tape mark affecting second and third columns, the tape causing these marks has been removed and again expertly repaired on verso, but with loss of some letters on second page, 3 horizontal creasefolds with some associated expertly repaired tears with associated losses to a few letters through all leaves but heavily affecting text on page 2, second leaf reinforced at fore-edge, a couple of minor marginal chips to bottom margin.)
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