Industrial Age · Europe · Politics

1898

J'accuse

January 13, 1898

Emile Zola published an open letter to the President of France on the front page of L'Aurore, accusing the army of framing Dreyfus and covering it up. Zola was tried for libel and fled to England. The letter turned a military scandal into a national convulsion about justice, the army, and the place of Jews in the republic.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1897: J.J. Thomson's Electron
After: May 18, 1899: First Hague Convention

Before and after in Politics

Before: August 29, 1897: First Zionist Congress
After: May 18, 1899: First Hague Convention

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.