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This is a very important event in French,
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and in many ways in European history.
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What was the Dreyfus Affair?
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You probably all know.
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In 1894, Dreyfus, who was Jewish,
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was falsely accused to be a German spy,
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and was imprisoned.
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That was obviously an anti-Semitic trial,
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and this mobilized the French intellectuals,
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and not only French intellectuals,
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but French intellectuals in particular.
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Emile Zola, whom some of you may have read,