Word: dreyfusism
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...they did not pay off at the finish. In 1889 colorful General Boulanger came close to seizing the country. The colorful military cliques of the century's turn-on one' side the Catholics and reactionaries; on the other the Radical Socialists and Freemasons-gave France its Dreyfus case. Nowadays no French soldier votes and on the subject of politics the Army is known as la grande muette (the big dumb woman). Particularly in these times, France wants her soldiers mute and professional, and the mutest and most professional is Maurice Gamelin...
France. Unlike the German army, the French army does not strut. The French people are proud of their soldiers, but do not worship them. Since the fiasco of General Boulanger's attempt at a military dictatorship in the 1880s and the Dreyfus case in the '90s, the French army has eschewed politics...
...extensive collection of French newspapers, relating to the Dreyfus Case was presented by Lee M. Friedman, of Boston, and has been photographed on micro-film to insure its preservation. Another gift was an army commission, dated 1862, signed by Abraham Lincoln...
...Devil's Island. Not more than 25 traitors to France have generally inhabited Devil's Island at one time. Currently only five or six exiles live on the island. So publicized was the case of the first prisoner on Devil's Island, the martyred Captain Alfred Dreyfus, that the entire French Guiana penal colony commonly takes the name of the tiny island...
Last week that 30-pound manuscript was published-a grisly, 345-page document that sent queasy readers out for fresh air, sounded fantastic enough to be the truth. Less emotional than Dreyfus' famed account of his five-year exile, Belbenoit's covers more ground, is heavy with unrelieved nightmare...