Zola, Emile. “J’Accuse…!” L’Aurore.

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art

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Lot 73

(DREYFUS AFFAIR)

Zola, Emile. “J’Accuse…!” L’Aurore.

Broadsheet, complete in two printed leaves. Browned, trace foxed on first leaf. Folds. Folio 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 Drumont’s La Libre Parole articles helped send Dreyfus to Devil’s Island, this widely circulated defense of Dreyfus helped effect his release.