Word: dreyfusard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed novelist Alphonse. From each, Proust tried to extract the unconditional love his mother had given him as a child; in each he was disillusioned. But it was the Dreyfus affair that deglamorized high society for Proust. Jewish on his mother's side, he courageously declared himself a Dreyfusard and helped to circulate the first petition for Dreyfus' release. Ironically, when Dreyfus was finally released, Proust found him as unappealing an ex-martyr as the other socialites did. Mme. Straus said, "What a pity we can't choose someone else for our innocent," a line...
...dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially disliked Dreyfus. Novelist Emile Zola ripped into the nasty mess with his famous l'accuse! Georges Clemenceau became a Dreyfusard; famous lawyers kept trying to reopen the case at the risk of their lives. Not until July 1906 did France's highest court throw out the pack of lies and forgeries that had sent Dreyfus to Devil's Island. By that time, Traitor Esterhazy was safe in England...
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