YEAR TWO - history and context (Thursday)

Yale University lecture on Dreyfus case - 19th century French History. In the same series there are lectures on Anarchism, the Paris Commune, socialism, the radical press... Zola is normally seen as the father of investigative journalism, and Dreyfus the classic miscarriage of justice story. Attitudes to Dreyfus shaped the emergence of the political left and right through the late 19th century and early 20th century and the Yale lecturer traces it all through to the third reich and modern racial and non-racial politics. So this is interesting background. French press and politics in the Thrid Republic very influential in understanding development of the press in England and America later.