de Perthuis, Bruno

Images at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair - 2004.


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This article aims at discovering the different representations of justice during the Dreyfus affair through press cartoons and illustrated post-cards: justice of class, conflicts between military and civil justice, superimposition of representations of truth and justice, ambiguous representation of Devil Island, unflattering images of judges, sometimes represented – as well as Dreyfus and his defenders – as agents for Berlin. Ultimately, the ambiguity of justice itself in that ideological and passionate war.