27 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 261
28 Proust, op. cit., p. 359
29 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 266
30 Thomas, op. cit., p. 504
31 Pierre Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 179
Chapter 12: The Pen versus the Sword
1 Painter, op. cit., vol. I, p. 233
2 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 277
3 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 149
4 Quoted in ibid., p. 148
5 Bredin, op. cit., p. 281
6 See Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 142
7 See Charles Péguy, op. cit., p. 54
8 Painter, op. cit., p. 108
9 Ibid., p. 142
10 Quoted in Wilson, op. cit., p. 309n.
11 Ibid., p. 278
12 Painter, op. cit., p. 161
13 Ibid., p. 243
14 Ibid., p. 118
15 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 273; Painter, op. cit., p. 223
16 Painter, op. cit., p. 223
17 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 251
18 Robert Tombs, ‘“Lesser Breeds without the Law”: The British Establishment and the Dreyfus Affair, 1894–1899’, p. 498
19 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 272
20 Tombs, ‘“Lesser Breeds without the Law”’, p. 497
21 Frederick C. Conybeare, The Dreyfus Case, p. 154
22 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 95
23 Schwertfeger, op. cit., p. 104
24 Ibid., p. 94
25 Ibid., p. 108
26 Ibid., p. 110
27 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 300
28 See Ruth Harris, ‘The Assumptionists and the Dreyfus Affair’, p. 177
29 Bredin, op. cit., p. 306
30 Ibid., p. 309
31 Ibid., p. 312
32 Quoted in ibid., p. 316
33 Ibid., p. 320
Chapter 13: The Road to Rennes
1 Bredin, op. cit., p. 325
2 Thomas, op. cit., p. 518
3 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 329
4 Burns, Rural Society and French Politics, p. 45
5 Thomas, op. cit., p.108
6 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 330
7 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 236
8 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 345
9 L’Intransigeant, 18 October 1898, quoted in ibid., p. 361
10 Brogan, op. cit., p. 342
11 Burleigh, op. cit., p. 314
12 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 191
13 Bredin, op. cit., p. 304n.
14 Arendt, op. cit., p. 102
15 Ibid., p. 115
16 Tombs, France, 1814–1914, p. 93
17 Gibson, op. cit., p. 110
18 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 171
19 Vigouroux, op. cit., p. 346
20 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 171
21 Wilson, op. cit., p. 524.
22 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 185
23 Quoted in Burleigh, op. cit., p. 354
24 McManners, op. cit., p. 126
25 The Times, 17 January 1899
26 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 135
27 ‘The Jesuits and the Dreyfus Case’, The Month, February 1899, p. 124
28 Flannery, op. cit., pp. 188–9
29 Quoted in Burleigh, op. cit., p. 430
30 Quoted in Wilson, op. cit., p. 418
31 Brogan, op. cit., p. 367
32 Tombs, France, 1814–1914, p. 63
33 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 338
34 Wilson, op. cit., p. 137
35 Burleigh, op. cit., p. 427
36 Quoted in Wilson, op. cit., p. 148
37 Ibid., p. 150
38 Ibid., p. 156
39 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 242
40 Brogan, op. cit., p. 334
41 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 351
43 Duclert, op. cit., p. 573
44 Painter, op. cit., vol. II, p. 30
45 Schwertfeger, op. cit., p. 109
46 Alfred Dreyfus, Memoirs of Captain Dreyfus, p. 227
47 Miquel, op. cit., p. 83
48 Vigouroux, op. cit., p. 357
49 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 363
50 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 189
51 Vigouroux, op. cit., p. 347
52 Bredin, op. cit., p. 366
53 Ibid., p. 371
54 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 150
55 Ibid., p. 152
56 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 373
57 Ibid., p. 376
58 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 156
59 Ibid., p. 158
60 Ibid., p. 161
61 Bredin, op. cit., p. 385
62 Ibid., p. 387
Chapter 14: Rennes
1 Alfred Dreyfus, Five Years of my Life, p. 326
2 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 219
3 Alfred Dreyfus, Five Years of my Life, p. 337
4 Thomas, op. cit., p. 507
5 Alfred Dreyfus, Five Years of my Life, p. 341
6 Duclert, op. cit., p. 556
7 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 167
8 Ibid., p. 192
9 Brogan, op. cit., p. 355
10 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 171
11 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 326. Bredin says seventy
12 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 403
13 Ibid., p. 402
14 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 195
15 Ibid., p. 169
16 Maurice Barrès, Scènes et doctrines du nationalisme, p. 138, quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 405
17 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 169
18 Ibid., p. 170
19 Ibid., p. 173
20 Ibid., p. 175
21 Duclert, op. cit., p. 707
22 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 185
23 Ibid., p. 186
24 Ibid., p. 196
25 Duclert, op. cit., p. 708
26 Ibid., p. 705
27 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 198
28 Ibid., p. 177
29 Maurice Barrès, quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 413
30 Quoted in Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 327
31 Schwertfeger, op. cit., p. 143
32 Ibid., p. 147
33 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 209
34 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 420
35 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 221
36 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 256
37 Quoted in Miquel, op. cit., p. 110
38 Burns, op. cit., p. 248
39 Miguel, op. cit., p. 107
40 Doise, op. cit., p. 61
41 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 148
42 Duclert, op. cit., p. 661
43 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 205
44 Ibid., p. 218
45 Duclert, op. cit., p. 422
46 Bredin, op. cit., p. 425
47 Paléologue, op. cit., p. 189
48 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 429
49 Ibid., p. 430
50 Duclert, op. cit., p. 756
51 Ibid.
52 Tombs, ‘“Lesser Breeds without the Law”’, p. 495
53 Ibid., p. 505
54 Ibid., p. 502
55 Ibid., p. 506
56 Ibid.
57 Ibid., p. 508
58 Ibid.
59 Wilson, op. cit., p. 423
61 Bredin, op. cit., p. 433
62 Alfred Dreyfus, Five Years of my Life, p. 344
63 Duclert, op. cit., p. 772
64 Ibid., p. 793
65 Ibid., p. 795
66 Alfred Dreyfus, Carnets, p. 30, quoted in ibid., p. 802
Chapter 15: The Last Act
1 McManners, op. cit., p. 127
2 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 439
; 3 Doise, op. cit., p. 61
4 McManners, op. cit., p. 127
5 Quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 443
6 Pierre Dreyfus, op. cit., dedication
7 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 350
8 Le Journal, 4 December 1901, quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 449
9 Ibid., p. 448
10 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 356
11 Ibid., p. 193
12 Ibid., p. 352
13 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 325
14 Painter, op. cit., vol. I, p. 248
15 Ibid.
16 Alfred Dreyfus, Memoirs of Captain Dreyfus, p. 322
17 Painter, op. cit., p. 248
18 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 319
19 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 359
20 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 83
21 Ibid., p. 319
22 Quoted in Duclert, op. cit., p. 797
23 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 445
24 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 359
25 Péguy, op. cit., pp. 65–6
26 Ibid., p. 113
27 Quoted in McManners, op. cit., p. 127
28 Ruth Harris, ‘The Assumptionists and the Dreyfus Affair’, Past and Present, p. 208
29 Ibid.
30 Wilson, op. cit., p. 187
31 Miquel, op. cit., p. 104
32 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 369
33 Anderson, op. cit., p. 59
34 Ibid., p. 51
35 Brogan, op. cit., p. 361
36 Tombs, France, 1814–1914, p. 465
37 McManners, op. cit., p. 125
38 Tombs, op. cit., p. 465
39 Quoted in McManners, op. cit., p. 44
40 Gibson, op. cit., p. 103
41 Ibid., p. 93
42 Genesis, 38: 8–10
43 Theodore Zeldin, Conflicts in French Society, p. 49
44 McManners, op. cit., p. 133
45 Brogan, op. cit., p. 362
46 Revue des Deux Mondes, quoted in McManners, op. cit., p. 133
47 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 296
48 Brogan, op. cit., p. 362
49 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 359
50 The Catholic Encylopaedia (1913)
51 Schultheiss, op. cit., p. 10. See also the scathing satire of such an institution in Octave Mirbeau’s Diary of a Chambermaid
52 Tombs, op. cit., p. 469
53 Gibson, op. cit., p. 126
54 Schultheiss, op. cit., p. 11
55 Ibid., p. 20
56 See Don Cook, Charles de Gaulle, p. 27
57 Brogan, op. cit., p. 378
58 Péguy, op. cit., p. 96
59 Ibid., p. 134
60 Brogan, op. cit., p. 378
61 Quoted in Wilson, op. cit., p. 555
62 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island, p. 229
63 Bredin, op. cit., p. 459
64 Joseph Reinach, Histoire de l’Affaire Dreyfus, vol. VI, p. 200, quoted in ibid., p. 461
65 Quoted in ibid., p. 467
66 Ibid., p. 468
67 Brogan, op. cit., p. 380
68 Bredin, op. cit., p. 481
69 Alfred Dreyfus, Memoirs of Captain Dreyfus, p. 359
70 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 309
Epilogue
1 Alfred Dreyfus, Cinq années de ma vie, p. 228, quoted in Bredin, op. cit., p. 486
2 Pierre Dreyfus, op. cit., p. 8
3 Ibid., p. 9
4 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 319
5 Duclert, op. cit., p. 1011
6 Vigouroux, op. cit., p. 347
7 Burleigh, op. cit., p. 454
8 Ibid., p. 455
9 Bredin, op. cit., p. 501
10 Schwertfeger, op. cit., pp. viii, 243
11 Vigouroux, op. cit., p. 4
12 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 401
13 Bredin, op. cit., p. 488
14 Jean-Louis Lévy, internet interview
15 Wilson, op. cit., p. 740
16 Ibid., p. 741
17 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 466
18 Leps, op. cit.
19 Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, p. 466
20 Jean-Louis Lévy, internet interview
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