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...exile to Devil's Island and exoneration have been retailed in countless volumes and films; the most celebrated, The Life of Emile Zola, won an Academy Award for best picture in 1937. But The Affair manages to invest the drama with renewed pity and urgency. French Professor Jean-Denis Bredin is not content with a toneless recapitulation; the dark background is carefully illuminated, and the major characters and walk-ons are given full dimension, including, at times, the homosexual flirtations of spies and Dreyfus' adventures with a series of mistresses...
...Jan.13, 1898, Zola published what Bredin calls "a great document, one which marks an essential date in the history of journalism." J 'Accuse was "an indictment of the forces and virtues of traditional France, its religious passion, military spirit, and hierarchies." Zola's outrage proved contagious. Slowly the bodyguard of lies surrounding the actual villains began to defect. Major Ferdinand Esterhazy, a German agent, fled the country. Lieut. Colonel Hubert Henry, who had forged Dreyfus' handwriting on incriminating documents, committed suicide...
After twelve years of suffering, the captain was finally pardoned and passed from sight. But as Bredin convincingly argues, the next century was to be dramatically altered by the verdict and its reversal. If the anti-Dreyfus agitators and clerics represented France at its worst, the Dreyfusards, most of them Christian, demonstrated the nation's passion for justice and equality. Both sides continued to seethe until they collided once again in 1940, when the Third Reich occupied the country. Events like the upcoming trial of Nazi Captain Klaus Barbie, now imprisoned in Lyon, continue to show how many...
Gone are Correne Bredin, a defenseman with the Canadian national team, and Amy Ferguson, whose goaltending marks clutter the Dartmouth record books...
...It’s fun that we both get to play again,” Bredin said. “It would’ve been nice to end their season, but I don’t see that happening...