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Early September 1898 saw the anti-revisionists in full retreat. Even Drumont said Henry’s forgery had been ‘idiotic and culpable’, while Rochefort’s L’Intransigeant called it ‘odious and stupid’. Henry’s suicide and Esterhazy’s flight led many of the undecided to support reopening the case of the bordereau, even if they might not be convinced that Dreyfus was innocent. When Prime Minister Brisson solicited Mathieu and Lucie to request revision of the 1894 trial the Dreyfusards could well believe their case had been won.
We will overthrow this republic to replace it by a better one.1
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In the Balance (1898–1899)
Jean-Marie Mayeur and Madeleine Reberioux, The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871–1914 trans. J. R. Foster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984; French edn, 1973), 190
Benjamin Martin, Crime and Criminal Justice under the Third Republic: The Shame of Marianne (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990)
and Bredin, The Affair 524, find justice was in no way blind, while Jean-Pierre Royer, ‘La magistrature déchirée’, in La France de l’Affaire Dreyfus ed. Pierre Birnbaum (Paris: Gallimard, 1994), 255
Pierre Miguel, L’Affaire Dreyfus (Paris: PUF, 1992)
and Gérard Masson, Les Juges et Le Pouvoir (Paris: Moreau and Syros, 1977), argue the contrary.
Stephen Wilson, ‘Le monument Henry; la structure de l’antisémitisme en France, 1898–1899’, Annales ESC March-April, 1977; Bredin, The Affair 350.
David B. Ralston, The Army of the Republic: The Place of the Military in the Political Evolution of France, 1871–1914 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1967), 223.
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Johnson, M.P. (1999). In the Balance (1898–1899). In: The Dreyfus Affair. European History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27519-9_6
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