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[DREYFUS AFFAIR] I accuse...! Letter to the President of the Republic. Paris, L'Aurore, Thursday January 13, 1898. Original edition of Émile Zola's famous letter-manifesto addressed to the President of the Republic, Félix Faure, 2 pages, broadside. Creases, oxidation, minor damage to a few letters, traces of tape repairs. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba

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[DREYFUS AFFAIR] I accuse...! Letter to the President of the Republic. Paris, L'Aurore, Thursday January 13, 1898. Original edition of Émile Zola's famous letter-manifesto addressed to the President of the Republic, Félix Faure, 2 pages, broadside. Creases, oxidation, minor damage to a few letters, traces of tape repairs. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba

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Estim. 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

Émile ZOLA. J'accuse...! Letter to the President of the Republic, in L'Aurore, January 13, 1898; large folio (62 x 46 cm) of 4p. (fold marks). First edition of this famous appeal for Justice for Alfred Dreyfus. This letter-manifesto, addressed to President Félix Faure, appeared on the front page of the newspaper L'Aurore, edited by Ernest Vaughan, two days after Esterhazy's acquittal by the Conseil de guerre. It marked the beginning of the fight for Alfred Dreyfus's innocence and rehabilitation. It earned Zola legal proceedings, which led to his temporary exile in England. Good condition; original folds.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

DREYFUS affair. Louis ANDRÉ (1838-1913) general, he was Minister of War. Set of letters and documents. P.A.S. as Minister of War (October 1902, 2 1/2 pages in-fol.), minute of bill to reinstate Lieutenant-Colonel Picquart in the Army. - Minute of L.A.S., December 4, 1901 (in the margin of a newspaper clipping) relating to the Rennes trial. - Draft of 2 L.A. to the Minister of War (Eugène Étienne), July 20 and 27, 1906 (2p in fol.) evoking the anguishing martyrdom suffered by Dreyfus at the time of his degradation and requesting the organization of a reparatory ceremony; he asks for communication of the file compiled by Commandant Targe (enclosed is the L.S. of reply from Eug. Étienne refusing to release the file, and a L.A.S. from Antoine Targe to André, telling him that the mission he had entrusted to him on the Dreyfus affair would remain the honor of his military career. - Autograph manuscript (4p in-8) in which André protests against Dreyfus's retirement, evoking "the horrible torture of military degradation, followed as comfort by the four years you know he spent on Devil's Island"; his rehabilitation was not accompanied by a promotion commensurate with the hardships endured, Enclosed: - 4 L.A.S. addressed to General André by Alph. Duvernoy, Alain Targe and General Macé (2 from 1898, on the imprisonment of Colonel Picquart and the threatened position of Minister Brisson); - 8 press clippings on the Dreyfus Affair, some annotated by General André; - brochure by Esterhazy, Ma déposition devant le Consul de France à Londres (Aux bureaux du Siècle 1901); - minute of an unidentified letter to V. Duruy on the Dreyfus Affair. Duruy on the Dreyfus affair.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

DREYFUS case. Georges PICQUART (1854-1914). Autograph manuscript (minute), Requête adressée à M. le Ministre de la Guerre par le Lt Colonel en réforme Picquart au sujet de la poursuite dirigée contre lui devant le 2e Conseil de Guerre de Paris, July 14, 1899; 8pages in-fol. (edges a little faded, repaired). Draft of his petition protesting his dismissal after his revelations concerning Dreyfus' innocence. Picquart sets out the charges against him: "1° Communication to Me Leblois of the Boullot dossier; 2° Communication to Me Leblois of the pigeons-voyageurs dossier", offenses which will be brought before a military court; "3° Communication to Me Leblois of the secret Dreyfus dossier; 4° Faux et 5° Usage de Faux", referred to a civil court. He explains the Boullot file, which Henry accuses him of having communicated, and asserts that he did not exceed his rights "by requesting an informed opinion, on a legal question, from a lawyer at the Paris Court of Appeal". His statements were confirmed by his predecessor at the intelligence service, Colonel Cordier: "This accusation falls in the presence of Colonel Cordier's declaration, which he acknowledged, under oath, that the head of the intelligence service has the right to do whatever is useful to his service". He did not contravene the circular of October 10, 1896 on correspondence relating to espionage cases, since "the part of the judicial file studied by Me Leblois under the eyes of Lt Henry [...] did not include any piece of secret correspondence"... Finally, "the Indictment Division of the Paris Court of Appeal invalidated all the charges brought against me before it. It therefore acquitted me completely of the charge of having communicated the secret Dreyfus file to Me Leblois (exhibit: this scoundrel D.)". Gribelin's testimony, accusing Picquart of having requested "the carrier pigeon file only to see the cover of the secret Dreyfus file", does not hold water. With regard to the passenger pigeon file, Gribelin finally admitted "that he did not see me communicate the secret passenger pigeon file to Me Leblois, and he clearly indicates that he does not think I even opened this file in front of Me Leblois. [...] The truth is that in the spring of 1896, I communicated the administrative file to Me Leblois. [...] The administrative file did not contain any secret or confidential documents of any kind", and Gribelin confirmed that he handed it over when the carrier pigeon law was promulgated (June 30, 1896). Picquart blames archivist Gribelin and "his actions to harm me and save Esterhazy, the passion he brought to this sad task"... Picquart therefore asked the Minister to carry out "further investigations into the two facts of which I am still accused". The Military Governor of Paris, whose powers are more extensive than those of an indictment chamber, can order such a measure.

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

Emile Zola Autograph Letter Signed

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