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PALÉOLOGUE, MAURICE, An Intimate Journal of the Dreyfus Case, New York, Criterion, 1957.
PÉGUY, CHARLES, “Notre Jeunesse,” Cahiers de la Quinzaine, 1910. (This was a reply to Daniel Halévy’s essay on the Affair written at Péguy’s invitation and published by him in the Cahiers de la Quinzaine. It is reprinted in English translation by Alexander Dru in Temporal and Eternal. New York, Harper, 1958.)
POUQUET, JEANNE SIMON, Le Salon de Mme Arman de Caillavet, Paris, Hachette, 1926.
PROUST, MARCEL, A la recherche du temps perdu, Paris, Gallimard, 1921–27.
*QUILLARD, PIERRE, Le Monument Henry: Liste des Souscripteurs, Paris, Stock, 1899.
RADZIWILL, PRINCESS CATHERINE, France Behind the Veil, New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1914.
*RADZIWILL, PRINCESS MARIE, Lettres au Général du Robilant, Vol. II, 1896–1901 (the Appendix contains her correspondence with General de Galliffet), Bologna, Zanichelli, 1933.
**REINACH, JOSEPH, Histoire de l’Affaire Dreyfus, 7 vols., Paris, Charpentier, 1901–11.
ROLLAND, ROMAIN, Mémoires, Paris, Albin Michel, 1956.
ROMAN, JEAN, Paris Fin de Siècle, New York, Arts, Inc., 1960.
SOREL, GEORGES, La Révolution Dreyfusienne, Paris, Rivière, 1911.
VIZETELLY, ERNEST ALFRED, Emile Zola, London, John Lane, 1904.
——, Paris and Her People, New York, Stokes, n.d. (1918).
ZEVAÈS, ALEXANDRE, L’Affaire Dreyfus: Quelques Souvenirs personnels, La Nouvelle Revue, January, February, March, 1936, Vols. 141 and 142.
ZOLA, EMILE, La Vérité en Marche (collected ed.), Paris, Bernouard, 1928.
Notes
Since my purpose in this chapter was not to retell the story of the Dreyfus Affair but rather to show French society reacting to it, I have not thought it necessary to document the historical events of the case unless they are controversial or obscure. The basic and essential source is still Reinach’s stupendous work overflowing with facts, texts, documentation, insights, comments, eyewitnessed scenes, character portraits of the leading figures he knew and his own direct experiences, such as the moment in the Chamber during de Mun’s speech when “I felt on my head the hatred of three hundred hypnotized listeners.” Everything that anyone said or did connected with the Affair he made it his business to collect and record, including, besides obvious matters, thousands of peripheral details such as Scheurer-Kestner’s disgust with the reporter or Count Witte’s flash of clairvoyance. As a major actor in, not merely an observer of, the events, Reinach was vilified, calumniated, and caricatured more than anyone excepting Zola. Under these circumstances to have put together a work of such historical value is a feat perhaps unequaled, certainly unsurpassed, in historiography. The reader may take it that any statement or quotation in this chapter not otherwise accounted for is to be found in Reinach, to be located through his Index, which occupies the entire seventh volume.
The most thoughtful expression of the Nationalist point of view is Barrès’ while the most vivid and vicious is Daudet’s. The best modern account—reliable, objective and of readable length—is Chapman’s. For the riots at Auteuil and Longchamps I relied on the contemporary press.
1 “Would have divided the angels themselves”: in Journal des Débats, Mar. 8, 1903, on death of Gaston Paris, q. Barrès, 9.
2 “At your age, General”: q. Lonergan, 76.
3 Lavisse on the Grande Armée: Histoire de France Contemporaine, III, 379.
4 Anatole France, “all that is left”: The character is M. Panneton de la Barge in M. Bergeret à Paris, 65–70.
5 Comte de Haussonville quoted: Paléologue, 147.
6 “France loves peace and prefers glory”: said by Albert Vandal, member of the French Academy, q. Figaro, Sept. 25, 1898.
7 Ladies rose for General Mercier: Proust, Guermantes, II, 150. The Duchesse de Guermantes caused a sensation at the soirée of the Princesse de Lignes by remaining seated when other ladies rose. It was this action which helped to defeat the Duc for the Presidency of the Jockey Club.
8 “You can have it back”: Reinach, I, 2.
9 “If Dreyfus is acquitted, Mercier