“The traitor: Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus, degradation in the Morland Court of the military school in Paris”
The Dreyfus affair (French: affaire Dreyfus) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. The scandal began in December 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a 35-year-old Alsatian French artillery officer of Jewish descent, was wrongfully convicted of treason for communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent overseas to the penal colony on Devil’s Island in French Guiana, where he spent the following five years imprisoned in very harsh conditions.
In 1896, evidence came to light—primarily through the investigations of Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart, head of counter-espionage—which identified the real culprit as a French Army Major named Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy. High-ranking military officials suppressed the new evidence, and a military court unanimously acquitted Esterhazy after a trial lasting only two days. The Army laid additional charges against Dreyfus, based on forged documents. Subsequently, writer Émile Zola’s open letter J’Accuse…! in the newspaper L’Aurore stoked a growing movement of political support for Dreyfus, putting pressure on the government to reopen the case.
In 1899, Dreyfus was returned to France for another trial. The intense political and judicial scandal that ensued divided French society between those who supported Dreyfus, the “Dreyfusards” such as Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, Charles Péguy, Henri Poincaré and Georges Clemenceau; and those who condemned him, the “anti-Dreyfusards” such as Édouard Drumont, the director and publisher of the antisemitic newspaper La Libre Parole. The new trial resulted in another conviction and a 10-year sentence, but Dreyfus was pardoned and released. In 1906, Dreyfus was exonerated. After being reinstated as a major in the French Army, he served during the whole of World War I, ending his service with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He died in 1935.
The Dreyfus affair came to symbolise modern injustice in the Francophone world; it remains one of the most notable examples of a miscarriage of justice and of antisemitism. The affair divided France into pro-republican, anticlerical Dreyfusards and pro-Army, mostly Catholic anti-Dreyfusards, embittering French politics and encouraging radicalisation. The press played a crucial role in exposing information and in shaping and expressing public opinion on both sides of the conflict.
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I play EU4 for the first time in forever and then Donald Trump announced the most EU4 shit imaginable by saying he’s going to break military alliances and go invade two smaller neighbors
Got back from Nosferatu a lil while ago. From technical standpoint, it’s absolutely brilliant. So, so many amazing shots. It kinda feels like a dream to sit through, I’m not entirely sure what to make of it thematically on one watch but can say for sure there’s a lot to unpack in this
Trying to explain being from a poorer nation to an American:
: you know diablo?
: now that’s - that’s what they’re doing now in Mexico, it’s in mexico I believe. That’s what they’re calling me. “La diablo Americano”. they know I won’t surrender
: so im like number one at diablo-
: “Donnie gringo”. That’s what they sayThinking back to an instagram post showing differences in how Americans and Europeans eat with a knife and fork, which didn’t seem to lean on one side being correct. The comments section, however, was full of people apparently unaware that table manners vary from culture to culture and weren’t handed down from God as the ontologically correct way to cut up food on your plate.
So what happens if two people who use mirror pronouns are talking about each other?
The fake 9/11 footage is so amateurish. Like what do you mean you just copied and pasted the world trade centre building??
fuck “proffessional” landlords, most shameless fucking parasite class in this rotten ass system, can’t wait for their property to be socialized
super strong accents in another language my beloved
osterreichers doing italian accented so hard i literally cannot parse a single word
Wanna hear a story that will make you hate the bourgeoisie even more? Warning: Serious
moment ahead.spoiler
My family is part of the 1% (not the 0,1% tho) so I have a lot of these stories, but this is the most radicalizing one: My dad was talking about a guy he worked with who recently bought a home in the most expensive part of Munich for upwards of 5 Million Euros. One day his 10-year-old daughter asks him “Daddy, are we poor?” and the guy was confused by the question, so he asks why she would think that.
The daughter says that out of all the kids in the neighborhood, her dad is the only one who has to go to work every morning.
This sounds like a story made up by a communist but no, my bourgeois corporate executive father told it to me. He just thought it was a funny anecdote.
People are weird about gender (disagreeing with the average Twitter user)
I think nyan cat would go hard in today’s meme climate. I expect a resurgence
some days i feel like an utter buffoon and general dumbass for how little i understand of socialist politics and global geo politics in general but then i remember maga communists are a thing and then i feel better about myself
Doug Ford crying about Trump being mean in both official languages
