Zola, Emile. “J’Accuse...!” L’Auore

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 153

(DREYFUS AFFAIR).

Zola, Emile. “J’Accuse...!” L’Auore

Single broadsheet, complete in two printed pages. Folio Housed in double-sided glass frame See N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art Truth & Justice (1987) pp.268-9 (illustrated)

Paris: 13th January, 1898

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

Celebrated crie-de-couer addressed to the President of the republic, in which Zola accused the French General Staff of creating a plot against Alfred Dreyfus. If the agitation of Drummont’s Libre Parole articles helped send Dreyfus to Devil’s Island, this widely circulated defense of Dreyfus helped effect his release