Unveiling the Secret Lives Behind Renoir’s Legacy: Art, Betrayal, and War Exposed
Ostler weaves their narrative with the story of Captain Dreyfus, a Jewish captain falsely accused of spying for Germany; he would be sentenced on false charges to the notorious Devil’s Island prison off the coast of French Guiana, purely on the basis of his Jewishness.
Achieving a pardon — thanks in no small part to the heroic efforts of the writer Emile Zola — took years. Meanwhile, the journalist Edouard Drumont, who’d written a wildly successful pamphlet La France juive — “a pent-up dam of hatred” — began his toxic journal, La Libre Parole, which regularly featured racist diatribes and would peak at 300,000 subscribers. By contrast, the left-wing L’Aurore reached about half that many.
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