The Trial of Emile Zola: Containing M. Zola's Letter to President Faure Relating to the Dreyfus Case, and a Full Report of the Fifteen Days' Proceedings in the Assize Court of the Seine, Including Testimony of Witnesses and Speeches of Counsel
1898
The Trial of Emile Zola: Containing M. Zola's Letter to President Faure Relating to the Dreyfus Case, and a Full Report of the Fifteen Days' Proceedings in the Assize Court of the Seine, Including Testimony of Witnesses and Speeches of Counsel
1898
In February 1898, France watched as its most celebrated living writer stood accused of libel for telling the truth. This is the complete stenographic record of that trial: Émile Zola facing a hostile court for his open letter 'J'accuse,' in which he accused the French military of wrongfully convicting Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, and then concealing the real traitor. The proceedings unfold in real time: testimony from military officers caught in lies, dramatic confrontations, Zola's own defiant declarations, and the courtroom drama that split a nation. What emerges is not merely a legal document but a portrait of one man risking fame, freedom, and even his life to expose a conspiracy of anti-Semitism and institutional cover-up. This is history written in the raw language of the courtroom, where justice was on trial as much as Zola himself. For readers interested in the foundations of modern human rights, the roots of political anti-Semitism in Europe, or the power of a writer to change the course of history.
