J’accuse...!, Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the Republic, in L’Aurore.
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#OTD in 1898.
Émile Zola's open letter to Félix Faure, President of France, on the Dreyfus affair, J'Accuse…!, is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper L'Aurore. On February 23, Zola is convicted of criminal libel in connection with J'Accuse…!. Following dismissal of his appeal he flees to London to escape imprisonment. In August he begins writing his novel Fécondité in the suburbs.
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J'accuse...! at PG:
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