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May 14, 2019
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LOT 41:
Illustree The Dreyfus Affair in Pictures - a special issue devoted entirely to the Dreyfus affair. Paris, 1899.
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Illustree The Dreyfus Affair in Pictures - a special issue devoted entirely to the Dreyfus affair. Paris, 1899.
A special issue of La Vie Illustre published on May 25, 1899, devoted entirely to the coverage of the Dreyfus affair in photographs and documents.
On the title page: L'AFFAIRE DREYFUS par LImage - 300 photographs, documents and drawings that review the Dreyfus affair from the beginning. The issue was published towards the end of the affair four days before the Appeals Court began to hear Dreyfus' plea for a retrial and about four months before Dreyfus finally received a pardon (on September 19, 1899).
Including photographs and illustrations by Dreyfus in court, military officers involved in the affair, documents relating to the affair in Dreyfus's handwriting, scenes from the ceremony of humiliation (the removal and destruction of Dreyfus's sword after he was charged with treason in January 1895), Dreyfus's wife and sons, The court (the photographers were not permitted to enter the hall during the hearings), the verdict, the devils', island where Dreyfus was imprisoned, photographs of figures in the affair (Esterhazy, Zola, Laburi, Clemenceau, Picard, Rochefort and others) .
Large format: 37 cm 155 p. Album edition on thick paper, few stains on binding and on first pages. fine condition.
