In making these accusations I am aware that I am making myself liable to articles 30 and 31 of the July 29 1881 law on the press making libel a punishable offense. C’est ce que j’ai ressenti lorsque je me suis de plus en plus impliqué dans le cas de Julian Assange, petit à petit, en plongeant de plus en plus profondément dans un monde sombre que je n’aurais jamais cru possible. With all his determination, he toiled to obtain a retrial for his beloved bother. And so Lt. It was by this route that the bordereau, as well as the petit bleu, arrived at the Military Intelligence Office. Translate texts with the world's best machine translation technology, developed by the creators of Linguee. My duty is to speak out, not to become an accomplice in this travesty. [40] On January 18, 1898, the Minister of War, General Billot, charged Zola and L’Aurore for libel. His next series of novels, Fécondité (1899), Travail (1901) and Vérité (1903), dealt with these ideals. Transcription : Keïko Accords lourds, un riff 3 hyper efficace, d’une beauté superbe, Ouais .. putain de riff 3 qu’il faut absolument bien tenir pour s’approprier cette chanson. For the next few years, in a world in which other democratic regimes were few and far between, France found itself very isolated: Germany, Austria and Italy had formed a menacing Triple Alliance, and Victorian Great Britain was not yet ready for the Edwardian Cordial Entente (1904). Open Letter to the President of the French Republic, [Translation and notes © Shelley Temchin and Jean-Max Guieu, Georgetown University, 2001]. The celebrated Franco-Russian Alliance was considered a political and diplomatic achievement, especially for President Faure and General de Boisdeffre, Chief of Staff, who, as former ambassador to Russia, had been instrumental in the agreement. Is the article J'accuse linked from this page? Many of their educated inhabitants chose to expatriate themselves if they could or at least send their young away. J’ACCUSE Ahmed Ounaies d’avoir représenté indignement la Tunisie lors de son déplacement à Paris. It is a crime to poison the minds of the meek and the humble, to stoke the passions of reactionismand intolerance, by appealing to that odious anti-Semitism that, unchecked, will destroy the freedom-loving France of the Rights of Man. Inspired by Flaubert, he advocated a scientific and realistic approach to plot and character development. And it is to you, Mr. President, that I shall proclaim this truth, with all the revulsion that an honest man can summon. You are radiant in the patriotic glory of our country’s alliance with Russia,[7] you are about to preside over the solemn triumph of our World Fair,[8] the jewel that crowns this great century of Labor, Truth, and Liberty. noun j'accuse any strong denunciation 0; noun j'accuse An accusation, especially one made publicly. 1893). Could these things be true, these unspeakable acts, these deeds so dangerous that they must be carefully hidden behind closed doors to keep Europe from going up in flames? Accueil; Général; Travaux; Domotique; Rénovation So an internal search was conducted. But what filth this wretched Dreyfus affair[9] has cast on your name, or, might I say, your reign. These, Mr. President, are the facts that explain how this miscarriage of justice came about; The evidence of Dreyfus’s character, his affluence, the lack of motive and his continued affirmation of innocence combine to show that he is the victim of the lurid imagination of Major du Paty de Clam, the religious circles surrounding him, and the “dirty Jew” obsession that is the scourge of our time.[26]. Colonel Georges Picquart (1854-1914). We still do not know what questions they were asked, but it is certain that not all of them implicated him. Translator. » Nils MELZER. In July 1897, Picquart’s lawyer, Louis Leblois, told him about the military cover-up, asking him to act without revealing his sources. [2] It took Zola just two days to write his “Letter to the President of the Republic.” According to tradition, its catchy title, “J’accuse...!”, inspired by the conclusion, was coined by Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), then political editor of L’Aurore. In 1900, his staunch anti-Dreyfusist attitude got him get elected as a nationalist Senator. The text of this page has been moved. C : 032010. Convinced that his failures were due to a Jewish plot, he rallied the anti-Semite campaign with all the rousing energy of a modern day condottiere. No one would ever believe the experiments to which he subjected the unfortunate Dreyfus, the traps he set for him, the wild investigations, the monstrous fantasies, the whole demented torture. I am stating simply that Major duPaty de Clam, as the officer of justice charged with the preliminary investigation of the Dreyfus case, is the first and the most grievous offender in the ghastly miscarriage of justice that has been committed. But, at bottom, it all started with Major du Paty de Clam, who led them on, hypnotized them, for, as an adept of spiritualism and the occult, he could converse with spirits. See, for instance, his article “Pour les Juifs,” published in Le Figaro in May 1896. (2) lit. I repeat with the most vehement conviction: truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. This was not only a bit of cheap trickery but also the most outrageous fraud imaginable, for almost all of these notorious secrets turned out in fact to be worthless. At the time of “J’accuse,” Zola was working on the concluding novel, Paris (1898), of his new series Les Trois Villes [Lourdes (1894), Rome (1896)], in which he examined socialist, anarchist and anticlerical themes. [23] A crime! But to whom if not to you, the first magistrate of the country, shall I reveal the vile baseness of those who truly are guilty? It is said that within the council chamber the judges were naturally leaning toward acquittal. Major du Paty de Clam had Dreyfus arrested and placed in solitary confinement. He immediately joined the group of people who were seeking a re-trial. And so, by all means imaginable, by press campaigns, by official communications, by influence, the War Office covered up for Esterhazy only to condemn Dreyfus once again. Zola was found guilty of libel. I said it before and I repeat it now: when truth is buried underground, it grows and it builds up so much force that the day it explodes it blasts everything with it. Nils Melzer, photographié par Yves Bachmann. Having set it all in motion merely by carelessness and lack of intelligence, they seem at worst to have given in to the religious bias of their milieu and the prejudices of their class. I accuse Lt. Col. du Paty de Clam of being the diabolical creator of this miscarriage of justice-- unknowingly, I am willing to believe-- and of defending this sorry deed, over the last three years, by all manner of bizarre and evil machinations. The reason the document was damning evidence was that Dreyfus’ name appeared in it. dans le journal Le Siècle - (Transcription) - 1898 Lettres de Georges Picquart au Garde des sceaux - (Transcription) -1898 I need say no more: let us seek and we shall find. He ran to Mme Dreyfus,[21] terrorized her, telling her that if she talked her husband would be ruined. We also heard talk of fourteen charges but we found only one, the one about the bordereau, and we learn that even there the handwriting experts could not agree. [11] Major Armand Mercier du Paty de Clam (1853-1916), had been in charge of the preliminary investigation in 1894: his relentless and vicious harassment of Dreyfus continued after the conviction and prevented any chance for a re-trial. As Sandherr’s deputy, Picquart had attended Dreyfus’ trial and public degradation in 1894 and was, like many others, convinced at the time that justice had been done. pronouncekiwi. Rescue had come, in the form of an anonymous letter warning of enemy actions, and a mysterious woman had even gone to the trouble one night of slipping him a paper, stolen from headquarters, that would save him. He was hard-working, and strove to be well informed. So they rendered an iniquitous verdict that will forever weigh upon our courts martial and will henceforth cast a shadow of suspicion on all their decrees. Colonel Picquart who, alone, had done his duty, was to become the victim, the one who got ridiculed and punished. De très nombreux exemples de phrases traduites contenant "j'accuse réception de ces documents" – Dictionnaire anglais-français et moteur de recherche de traductions anglaises. Plus connue sous le nom de « J'accuse... ! What is certain is that he never once acted against the will of his superiors. Colonel Picquart’s investigation. They stirred up all of France, they hid behind the understandable commotion they had set off, they sealed their lips while troubling our hearts and perverting our spirit. Inspired by the ideals of the Enlightment, it is very similar to the American Declaration of Independence (minus “the pursuit of happiness”). Meanwhile, the unfortunate Dreyfus was tearing at his flesh and proclaiming his innocence. [26] Zola had not waited until the Dreyfus Case to express his concern when confronted with increasingly virulent anti Semitism fueled by papers such as La Libre Parole or La Croix. The truth, first of all, about the trial and conviction of Dreyfus. Impressed by the dignified behavior of his prisoner, even under all the stress caused by Du Paty de Clam’s harassment, Forzinetti became one of his stauncher supporters, a stand that did not help his career. The United Nations' Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme is a modern version dated December 10, 1948. Why stir up trouble, especially since the sun would soon shine? Yann 21:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC) Touché. donc un moi apres. He appealed the judgment but, in July, the verdict was reconfirmed with a one-year jail term and a very stiff financial penalty. Where is that truly strong, judiciously patriotic administration that will dare to clean house and start afresh? Some trivial note, maybe, about some easy women, wherein a certain D... was becoming too insistent, no doubt some demanding husband who felt he wasn’t getting a good enough price for the use of his wife. Colonel Picquart had carried out his duty as an honest man. He kept insisting to his superiors in the name of justice. Ah, what a good sweeping out the government of this Republic should give to that Jesuit-lair, as General Billot himself calls it. He did not dare, no doubt in terror of public opinion, certainly for fear of implicating the whole General Staff, General de Boisdeffre, and General Gonse, not to mention the subordinates. The first court martial was perhaps unintelligent; the second one is inescapably criminal. This is where Major Esterhazy comes in. His express duty was to open an inquiry. In the article, Zola accused the French government of framing Alfred Dreyfus for treason because he was Jewish. Truth and justice, so ardently longed for! Minister of War 1893-1894 in the Casimir-Périer’s cabinet and the two Dupuy’s cabinets (1894; 1894-1895). Witnesses say that he was at first in a panic, on the verge of suicide or running away. Dreyfus was found guilty by a court-martial (December 22, 1894), stripped of his rank in a degrading public display (January 5, 1895) and deported to Devil's Island, where he was condemned to remain in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. Extrait issu d'Émile Zola ou la Conscience humaine réalisé par Stellio Lorenzi en 1978 : la lecture de l'article « J'accuse... ! She had married Alfred Dreyfus in 1890 and was the mother of his two children Pierre, (b. It was in this capacity, in the exercise of his office, that Lt. Mayer, an Alsatian and a Jew like Dreyfus, whose funeral turned into a patriotic demonstration of national unity and support for the military. There are two victims, two decent men, two simple hearts, who left their fates to God, while the devil was taking charge. But, as Zola mentions it, Picquart realized that the leaks to the German Embassy continued after Dreyfus had been sent to Devil’s Island and that the wrong man had therefore been convicted. No! But, at about the same time, Cpt. Colonel Picquart was sent away on official duty. For the rest of the Affair, La Libre Parole would bring the most violent and outrageous support to the anti-Dreyfus cause. [15] Colonel Jean Sandherr (1846-1897), was Head of the Military Intelligence from 1891 to 1895. It reached the Military Intelligence Office through the same channels as the bordereau. This translation has moved. His nefarious role, from the beginning of the case, could not have been known to Zola at the time of “J’accuse…!” (see last note). [17] This interpretation, wrong on both counts, shows how superficially the bordereau was analyzed, for a logical examination shows that it could only have come from an infantry officer. The people clamored for the traitor to be publicly stripped of his rank and demanded to see him writhing with remorse on his rock of infamy. However, Zola felt genuinely that it was his duty as a human being - and as a Frenchman - to defend the innocent against well-connected bullies, and protect the values, such as Truth, Justice and Liberty, of the country he loved. And these people sleep at night, and have wives and children they love! The action I am taking is no more than a radical measure to hasten the explosion of truth and justice. He surely knew the power of the press on public opinion but, as demonstrated by his private correspondence, far from being a publicity stunt, his involvement reflected his genuine outrage over the unfair treatment of an innocent man. He began his literary career as a journalist writing theater and art criticism while working on short stories. [6] In 1895, Edouard Drumont (1844-1917) the author of the best-seller La France juive (1886) and the founder and director of La Libre Parole, an anti-Semitic newspaper, launched a campaign against President Faure, revealing that his father-in-law had been tried for embezzlement twenty years earlier. Dreyfus’ eventual pardon by President Loubet in September 1899 ensured for the public opinion worldwide that a page had indeed been turned. And then a court martial was convened. The next step would take them both to civil court. I am being brief, for this is but the abridged version of a story whose sordid pages will some day be written out in full. The expected verdict by unanimous vote of acquittal on 11 January 1898 outraged supporters of the innocent Dreyfus such as Zola, whose “J’accuse” two days later reflected his own indignation. A retrial would mean that this whole extraordinary saga, so extravagant, so tragic, with its denouement on Devil’s Island, would fall apart! How, then, could subordinates contradict it? C'est bien le mail d'accusé réception que j'ai reçu 2-3 jours après avoir envoyé le dossier et à ce jour je n'ai pas eu de nouvelles. His multi-volume saga, Les Rougon-Macquart (1870-1893), illustrated these principles, giving vivid descriptions of milieus usually ignored by the Romantics, and addressing social issues, in novels such as L’Assommoir (1877), Nana (1880) or Germinal (1885). [10] The highly publicized court martial of Major Esterhazy was planned to defuse and refute definitively any accusations against him and prevent a retrial for Dreyfus. These scruples are all the more honorable since he remained mindful of discipline, while his superiors were dragging his name through the mud and casting suspicion on him, in the most astounding and outrageous ways. It will leave an indelible stain on your presidency. The fact that someone could have been convicted on this charge is the ultimate iniquity. He eventually settled in England, where he kept a low profile. He would occasionally visit his birthplace. His achievement, Dreyfus’s conviction, was in danger, and he surely was determined to protect it. Colonel du Paty de Clam was the one who had concocted the whole story, who kept it going, tipping his hand with his outrageous methods. After publishing his novel Thérèse Raquin (1867), he elaborated the theory of the modern novel that he called Naturalism.