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The Dreyfus Affair. The next thing that rocked the third republic was the arrest and trial of Captain Dreyfus…. Dreyfus, a Jew, was arrested on a forged treasonous note…. He was sent to Devil ’ s Island, but his case was revived with the help of the writer Emile Zola--.
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The next thing that rocked the third republic was the arrest and trial of Captain Dreyfus…
He was sent to Devil’s Island, but his case was revived with the help of the writer Emile Zola--
Zola accused the republic of corruption—anti-Semitism and abuse of power.
The Dreyfus case is one of the most important cases in history, and ranks with Voltaire’s defense of Calas. Both highlighted the abuse and despotic power of governments to falsely imprison persons.
The Dreyfus case led to the formal separation of church and state…it discredited the role of church, would be monarchists and the military on the French government.