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(詳細はAlfred Dreyfus grew into a public scandal of unprecedented scale, and caused most of the French nation to become divided between Dreyfusards and anti-Dreyfusards. ==Attitude of the press== Against this "odious campaign" was set in motion a whole band of newspapers connected with the Staff Office, and which received from it either subsidies or communications. Among the most violent are to be noted ''La Libre Parole'' (Drumont), ''L'Intransigeant'' (Henri Rochefort), ''L'Écho de Paris'' (Lepelletier), ''Le Jour'' (Vervoort), ''La Patrie'' (Millevoye), ''Le Petit Journal'' (Judet), ''L'Eclair'' (Alphonse Humbert). Two Jews, Arthur Meyer in ''Le Gaulois'' and G. Pollonnais in ''Le Soir'', also took part in this concert. Boisdeffre's orderly officer, Pauffin de St. Morel, was even caught one day bearing the "staff gospel" to Henri Rochefort (16 November); nobody was deceived by the punishment for breach of discipline which he had to undergo for the sake of appearances. An extraordinary piece of information (which was immediately contradicted) was printed by ''L'Intransigeant'' (12 December-14 December); it was attributed to the confidences of Pauffin, and it dealt with the "ultra-secret" dossier (the photographs of letters from and to Emperor William about Dreyfus). The Revisionist press, reduced to a small number of organs which were accused of being in the service of a syndicate, did not remain inactive. It consisted of ''Le Siècle'' (Yves Guyot, Joseph Reinach), ''L'Aurore'' (Vaughan, Clémenceau, Pressensé), and ''Le Rappel'', to which were joined later ''La Petite République'' (Jaurès) and ''Les Droits de l'Homme'' (Ajalbert). ''Le Figaro'', losing most of its subscribers, changed its politics on 18 December, but became "Dreyfusard" once more after the discovery of Henry's forgery. ''L'Autorité'' (Cassagnac) and ''Le Soleil'' (Hervé de Kerohant) were the only newspapers among the reactionary press which were more or less in favor of revision. Some of the revisionists, falling into the trap laid for them, widened the scope of the debate and gave it the character of an insulting campaign against the chiefs of the army, which hurt the feelings of many sincere patriots and drove them over to the other side. Public opinion was deeply moved by two publications: one, that of the indictment of Dreyfus (in ''Le Siècle'', 6 January 1898), which was absolutely remarkable for its lack of proof; the other (''Le Figaro'', 28 November 1897), that of letters written twelve years before by Esterhazy to his mistress, Madame de Boulancy, in which he launched furious invectives against his "cowardly and ignorant" chiefs, against "the fine army of France," against the entire French nation. One of these letters especially, which soon became famous under the name of the "lettre du Hulan" (Uhlan), surpassed in its unpatriotic violence anything that can be imagined. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The public scandal of the Dreyfus Affair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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