Word: dreyfuses
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...second section, which included a laundress, the school teacher, "A Woman of Virtue," and a Jewess who discussed the Dreyfus affair, was generally better. Especially outstanding was Miss Skinner's teacher, a rare combination of humor and pathos which was carried off with great skill and understanding...
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...weekly theatrical review, Le Figaro helped pay its way at first by collecting bribes from authors and playwrights for favorable notices. It later changed its ways, lured promising young authors to its pages, and was so successful, that it became a daily newspaper. When it printed pro-Dreyfus articles in the '90s, crowds stormed Le Figaro's plant and burned its equipment. In 1914, after Le Figaro published a series of bitter editorial attacks against Joseph Caillaux, the scandal-ridden Minister of Finance, Madame Caillaux slipped into the office and shot the paper's Director Gaston Calmette...
...case against him rested more on the emotion of prejudice than the reason of evidence. The motion picture does not have to deviate in the least from the actual case in showing how Haas suffered for a crime he had not committed, just as Alfred Dreyfus had earlier in France...
...Popular Front. Young Lawyer Blum helped defend Captain Alfred Dreyfus. He became a protege and confidant of the great French Socialist leader Jean Leon Jaures. But Blum's approach was steadfastly intellectual: he seemed to disdain practical politics. The assassination of Jaures and the shock of World War I changed the current of his life. In 1919, at 47, the dilettante was elected a deputy...