Printed, French news broadside, 26.5 x 19 in., mounted on slightly larger linen backing. With two-color heading, Dreyfus Est Innocent, subtitle Les Defenseurs Du Droit, De La Justice Et De La Verite, with Vive La France! / Vive La Republique! / Vive L'Armee! / A Bas Les Traitres! in four corners around portraits of eleven prominent Frenchmen and their quotes regarding the Dreyfus Affair, the central figure being Lieutenant Colonel Picquart. Publisher, as marked along bottom margin: Sceaux - Imprimerie Charaire. The Dreyfus Affair was one of the worst political and judicial scandals France had seen at the turn of the 20th century, with French Artillery Officer Alfred Dreyfus at the heart of it. Dreyfus, who was of Alsatian Jewish descent, was falsely convicted of treason in January 1895 for passing French military secrets on to the Germans, and was sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island in French Guiana. Considering the extensive anti-Semitism within the ranks of the French military, it was believed that Dreyfus would spend the rest of his life on the island, but with the strong support of leading intellectuals such as Emile Zola he was pardoned by the French President in 1899 and released from prison, even after being subjected to a second trial in the same year and again being declared guilty of treason despite the evidence that indicated he was victim of an army cover-up and therefore innocent. The scandal divided France deeply, and this news broadside was created in 1898 in response to a poster produced in the same format by the same publisher, commissioned by the "anti-Dreyfusards," who condemned Dreyfus, believing he was a traitor. The individuals featured in the broadside were major players in the scandal who put pressure on the government to reopen Dreyfus' case, which eventually led to his pardon in 1899 and exoneration by a military commission in 1906. Condition: Even toning. Laid down on linen. One vertical and three horizontal fold lines with some partial separation. Water stains at lower fold intersection and along the fold at upper left.
Printed, French news broadside, 26.5 x 19 in., mounted on slightly larger linen backing. With two-color heading, Dreyfus Est Innocent, subtitle Les Defenseurs Du Droit, De La Justice Et De La Verite, with Vive La France! / Vive La Republique! / Vive L'Armee! / A Bas Les Traitres! in four corners around portraits of eleven prominent Frenchmen and their quotes regarding the Dreyfus Affair, the central figure being Lieutenant Colonel Picquart. Publisher, as marked along bottom margin: Sceaux - Imprimerie Charaire. The Dreyfus Affair was one of the worst political and judicial scandals France had seen at the turn of the 20th century, with French Artillery Officer Alfred Dreyfus at the heart of it. Dreyfus, who was of Alsatian Jewish descent, was falsely convicted of treason in January 1895 for passing French military secrets on to the Germans, and was sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island in French Guiana. Considering the extensive anti-Semitism within the ranks of the French military, it was believed that Dreyfus would spend the rest of his life on the island, but with the strong support of leading intellectuals such as Emile Zola he was pardoned by the French President in 1899 and released from prison, even after being subjected to a second trial in the same year and again being declared guilty of treason despite the evidence that indicated he was victim of an army cover-up and therefore innocent. The scandal divided France deeply, and this news broadside was created in 1898 in response to a poster produced in the same format by the same publisher, commissioned by the "anti-Dreyfusards," who condemned Dreyfus, believing he was a traitor. The individuals featured in the broadside were major players in the scandal who put pressure on the government to reopen Dreyfus' case, which eventually led to his pardon in 1899 and exoneration by a military commission in 1906. Condition: Even toning. Laid down on linen. One vertical and three horizontal fold lines with some partial separation. Water stains at lower fold intersection and along the fold at upper left.
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