Dreyfusards

The "Dreyfusards" appealed to Enlightenment ideals of truth and justice, while conservatives, with the support of the

NYT > Home Page 2010

The "Dreyfusards" appealed to Enlightenment ideals of truth and justice, while conservatives, with the support of the

NYT > Home Page By LEO DAMROSCH 2010

FURTHER to my clarification last week concerning the relationship of the great French sociologist Emile Durkheim to the cause of Captain Alfred Dreyfus (AJN 20/11), your readers may further be interested to learn of the direct relationship of the "Dreyfusards" as accidental "godfathers" to the now widely celebrated Tour de France bicycle race.

The Australian Jewish News 2009

Once upon a time, yes, there was a philosopher and poet who, when he said "France", brought to mind a people of the Communards, the Dreyfusards, the Maquisards whose uncrushable grandeur another of our friends, Pierre Goldman, whose biography he would write, evoked.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: In Cairo. DSK's Golden China. A Film on Sollers. My Friend Dollé. The Jardin Case. Whither Pakistan? Ahab or Musil? Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

Once upon a time, yes, there was a philosopher and poet who, when he said "France", brought to mind a people of the Communards, the Dreyfusards, the Maquisards whose uncrushable grandeur another of our friends, Pierre Goldman, whose biography he would write, evoked.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: In Cairo. DSK's Golden China. A Film on Sollers. My Friend Dollé. The Jardin Case. Whither Pakistan? Ahab or Musil? Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

The Dreyfus affair took on mythic proportions immediately; more than a century after the revolution, traditional France (anti-Dreyfusards) and Republican France (Dreyfusards) faced each other again across the barricades.

The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France by Ruth Harris Carmen Callil 2010

At the same time, it ought to be recognized that Williamson's Holocaust denial and his embrace of a crude anti-Semitic canard like the "Protocols" is not all that surprising, given that Lefebvrist political ideology grew out of the same French fever swamps that produced the anti-Dreyfusards.

Rome’s Reconciliation 2009

(Even as it ought to be recognized that the hypersecularists of the Third French Republic hated Catholics as much as some anti-Dreyfusards hated Jews.)

Rome’s Reconciliation 2009

Just as the Dreyfusards had hoped, hundreds of foreign reporters came to Paris to watch the famous author have his day in court.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

The intense political and judicial fighting that ensued divided French society between those who supported Dreyfus (the Dreyfusards) and those who condemned him (the anti-Dreyfusards).

Jim Luce: Jules Verne's Kip Brothers Translated into English after 100 Years 2009