Zola, Emile. “J’Accuse...!” L’Auore

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $3,500

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(DREYFUS AFFAIR).

Place

Paris

Publication

13th January, 1898

Description

Single broadsheet, complete in two printed pages. Folio

references

See N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art Truth & Justice (1987) pp.268-9 (illustrated)

summary

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

Housed in double-sided glass frame

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