(DREYFUS AFFAIR)

An anti-Dreyfusard broadside expressing strong sentiment against Dreyfus as well as against Germans and Protestants. An excellent example of an inflamatory work, the five bands of caricature illustration ridicule the various players involved in securing Dreyfus’ reinstatement. Depictions include Emile Zola playing his famous cantata J’accuse! with music by Alfred Bruneau; Dreyfus’s chariot driven by Grand Rabbi Kabbosch-d’Ane followed by English, Austrian, Italian and German “Friends of the Traitor”; the anti-Semitic publicists Henri Rochefort, Edouard Drumont and Jules Guérin follow the chariot “Moulin à la Galette.” Dreyfusards including Scheurer-Kestner, the Vice-President of the Senate whose efforts won Dreyfus a retrial, George Picquart, Georges Clemenceau, Jean Jaurès and Yves Guyot are also depicted. “Dirge of the Martyr of Devil’s Island” sung to the tune of “The Wandering Jew” is printed at the bottom. See: F. Helzel & E. Battat, Witnesses to History: The Jewish Poster 1770-1985 (1989), no. 7 p.30. With: Two broadside lampooning the rabid anti-Semite Edouard Drumont. The self-proclaimed champion of France and her Army, who became associated with the activities of the ultra-Catholic, was invariably anti-Semitic and through his paper, La Libre Parole had a considerable share in exacerbating the Dreyfus Affair