This article aims to restore Lazare’s place at the center of the Dreyfus Affair narrative. Instead, Lazare became a target for the resentments of both his Christian and Jewish contemporaries and died an untimely death as a pariah. Lazare also crafted the language of “J’accuse” which moved a nation and became a celebrated page of history, though he was never credited for it.
French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in 1894. He confronted the leading antisemitic figures of his time, including Édouard Drumont, and solicited the support of charismatic celebrities such as Émile Zola. The harsh reality of Devil’s Island first became publicized during the Dreyfus affair. It was Lazare who made the “Affair” known to the world as an antisemitic plot. explaining that the captain had not been present for the courts decision. In stark contrast to other Dreyfusards who preferred to consider the case as essentially an “error” of the judicial system, Lazare insisted that there was a potent antisemitism operating beneath the surface of the political stage. On 22 December 1894, a military court-martial convicted Alfred Dreyfus for. Lazare authored three brochures, including the very first published work arguing Dreyfus’s defense, and pursued numerous lines of inquiry and advocacy to keep the Dreyfus case alive in the public sphere. It is 100 years since Captain Alfred Dreyfus, victim of one of the most notorious acts of anti-semitism in French history, was exonerated of trumped-up charges of treason. On an autumn morning in 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared for a routine inspection but found himself summarily accused of high treason. The historiography of the Dreyfus Affair has often neglected the crucial role played by Bernard Lazare as the first defender of the wrongly accused French army captain Alfred Dreyfus.
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