It had been agreed that the report of the proceedings should not be made public. He fought a duel, first with Drumont, then with Lamase, under whose name the articles had appeared. The articles of the "Libre Parole," which denounced the Jewish officers as intriguers and future traitors, led a Jewish captain of dragoons, Crémieufoa,to declare that he resented as a personal insult the slanderous assault made upon the body of Jewish officers. The Bordereau, upon Which Dreyfus Was Convicted(Continued on following page). But the case itself was more immediately the outcome of the continuous attack made upon the presence of the Jews as officers in the French army by Drumont and others in the journal "La Libre Parole," founded with the help of the Jesuits in 1892.
The virulence of the passions aroused by the case was indirectly the result of the spread of Anti-Semitism in France, due partly to the failure of the Union Générale-a Catholic banking establishment which aimed at superseding Jewish finance-in 1885, and partly to the publication of Drumont's book "La France Juive" in 1886.
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As probably the best-known "cause célèbre" of modern times, which involved the fate of ministries, and even of presidents of the French republic, it deserves full treatment in these pages, as the Jewish aspects of the case were from first to last its leading feature. Alfred Dreyfus, officer in the French army, in 18, involving political complications and convulsions of the highest importance, rending France into two sections, and attracting the attention of the whole civilized world for nearly two years. Conjunction of Matthew Dreyfus and Scheurer-Kestner.The "Speranza" and "Blanche" Telegrams.
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