Publication: Complete works (1894-1936) – Alfred Dreyfus

For Captain Dreyfus -an innocent victim of a miscarriage of justice, an army conspiracy, and relentless antisemitic persecution writing was a way to maintain a bond with his loved ones, to avoid madness and the loss of hope, and, ultimately, to resist being crushed. Brought together for the first time in this single volume are all of his writings, from the moment he was placed in solitary confinement on 15 October 1894 through to the final years before his death on 12 July 1935.

This collection includes Dreyfus’s private correspondence -mainly with his wife and friends- notes taken during the 1894 trial and on Devil’s Island (where he dismantles Bertillon’s fanciful graphological “expertise,” laments betrayals by friends, and exposes insinuations directed against him), legal arguments in his defence, replies addressed to the far-right press, as well as his military articles.

While not all of these texts are previously unpublished, they allow readers to grasp the determination, method, and stages of the great struggle waged by an innocent officer to restore his honour. Beyond the symbolic figure of the fight for truth and justice that he came to embody, this volume also sheds light on the intimate dimension of a deeply personal tragedy.

Edited and introduced by Vincent Duclert and Philippe Oriol. Afterword by Pierre Dreyfus and Charles Dreyfus.

Publication: Tuesday, 12 November 2024, published by  Les Belles Lettres.

This book received the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.

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Wednesday, 4 December 2024, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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