Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935

Philippe Bunau-Varilla, an engineer of the Panama Canal, writes to the New York Evening Post to clarify publicly why he dropped his libel lawsuit against the newspaper. As Bunau-Varilla counters recent negative remarks made by the Post, he recounts his role in the Panama Canal’s construction, discusses the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair, and asserts that he is indifferent to further attacks from this newspaper.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-31

Creator(s)

Bunau-Varilla, Philippe, 1859-1940

President Roosevelt thanks Brander Matthews for the books. He was amused that an anti-Dreyfus man would select him as a “club” since he has always “championed Dreyfus.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Louis B. Livingston chronicles the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and the Marquis de Mores during their time together as cattle ranchers in the Dakota Badlands. Livingston focuses on the controversy as to whether the two seriously contemplated a duel to settle their differences, and he charts their divergent paths once they left the West after the ruin of their ranches. Livingston details de Mores’s obsession with antisemitism which he argues helped precipitate the notorious Dreyfus Affair in France, and he documents Roosevelt’s outspoken opposition to antisemitism during his political career.

Six photographs supplement the article, including two of de Mores and three of Roosevelt during their ranching years. A text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appears at the end of the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2015

An ape-like figure wears a hat labeled “Militarism” and holds a stone labeled “Forgery.” He is wounded in the side with an arrow labeled “J’Accuse,” and he is holding a female figure labeled “French Republic.” The ape may represent Alfred Dreyfus or one of several French military officials involved in the Dreyfus affair.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-01-18

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Émile Zola, as a bullfighter holding a cape labeled “La Vérité” and a quill pen labeled “Zola,” faces a charging bull that is wearing a phrygian cap labeled “France” and has been stabbed in the back of the neck with a banderilla labeled “La Débâcle.” After a military investigation and trial acquitted Ferdinand Esterhazy of treason, placing the guilt on Alfred Dreyfus, Zola published an open letter to the president of France demanding that the truth be made known and that the miscarriage of justice, “La Débâcle,” that has come to be known as the Dreyfus Affair, be corrected.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-02-16

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

An octopus with the head of a French military officer (which may represent General Boisdeffre or General Gonse), wearing a plumed hat labeled “Militarism,” has settled over Paris, France, with its tentacles extending in all directions. The tentacles are labeled “Deception, Dishonor, Forgery, Assassination, Corruption, Falsehood, [and] Blackmail.” Caught in their grasp are military officers Georges “Picquart” and Alfred “Dreyfus,” two female figures labeled “Honor” and “Justice,” and the author Émile “Zola” holding a quill pen labeled “J’Accuse.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-10-26

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Print shows Justice sitting, blindfolded and holding her scales at her side, with the Eiffel Tower in the background. Standing at her feet is Puck holding a list of names that includes “Esterhazy, Paty de Clam, Mercier, Billot, Zurlinden, Boisdeffre, Gonse, Pellieux, Delagorgue, Perivier, Tezenas” and others. Caption: Puck (to French Justice) So far, so good, Madame! You have vindicated Dreyfus; but you must punish these criminals who persecuted him, before your work is done.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-06-28

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Print shows Uncle Sam, John Bull, and a crowd of spectators looking at seven French military officers standing and sitting in stocks. The latter are labeled “Zurlinden, Du Paty de Clam, Gonse, Roget, Mercier, Boisdeffre, [and] Esterhazy.” These officers were responsible for the conviction, and re-conviction, of Alfred Dreyfus for the charge of treason (he was ultimately exonerated).

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-10-18

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

Brander Matthews has obtained a copy of President Roosevelt’s New York in French, and he is sending President Roosevelt a copy of a book he has obtained from an “anti-Dreyfus-ard.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-29

Creator(s)

Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929

Bellamy Storer discusses the Catholic Church hierarchy’s opposition to the Republican party. Storer also discusses his involvement in introducing Carlton Bailey Hurst to Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna after he was removed from his position as Consul General in Vienna. Storer cautioned that if the removal was due to charges made by Charles V. Herdliska, Secretary of the Vienna legation, such charges were untrustworthy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-10

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922