Please note each answer must be 1 double spaced page Timeline September 189
Please note each answer must be 1 double spaced page
Timeline
September 1894: The bordereau is discovered.
December 1894: Dreyfus is court-martialed and convicted of treason.
January 1895: Dreyfus is publicly degraded and banished to prison.
March 1896: Picquart discovers that Esterhazy is a spy.
June 1896: Picquart discovers that Esterhazy wrote the bordereau.
January 1897: Picquart is sent away to Tunisia.
November 1897: Dreyfus family discovers that Esterhazy wrote the bordereau.
January 1898: Esterhazy is tried and acquitted; Zola publishes “J’Accuse!”.
February 1898: Zola is tried and convicted for criminal libel.
July 1898: Zola’s second trial and self-exile.
August 1898: Henry commits suicide.
Aug./Sept. 1899: Dreyfus’s second trial and conviction.
September 1899: Dreyfus receives a presidential pardon.
November 1903: Dreyfus requests a retrial.
July 1906: Court of Appeal annuls the verdict on Dreyfus and declares him innocent. Dreyfus is reinstated with honors.
QUESTIONS
1. Summarize the circumstances and decisions that resulted in Alfred Dreyfus being wrongfully accused and convicted of treason. What role did the media play? What basic principles of fairness were violated? What did his family do to prevent Alfred from being cast aside and forgotten? See pages 175-189.
2. How did the French government and Dreyfus’s family independently of each other discover that Esterhazy was the real spy? How did each side react to this discovery? What did the government do? Why did Esterhazy insist on having a trial? Summarize what led to the verdict at Esterhazy’s trial.
3. Summarize Émile Zola’s intervention in, and impact on, the Dreyfus Affair. Explain the difference of perspective between “intellectuals” like Zola and the anti-intellectuals (the nationalist, anti-Semitic, Catholic anti-Dreyfusards) (see pages 195-197, 201-208). Summarize Zola’s two trials (see pages 209-213).
4. Describe the circumstances that led to Christian Esterhazy’s explosive revelations, the impact they had, and how the anti-Dreyfusards reacted and tried to salvage meaning in their movement. See pages 213-218.
5. Summarize Dreyfus’s second trial. What kind of public statements did anti-Dreyfusards make to try to frame the trial in advance? What happened during the trial? What was the result? See pages 220-228
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