No. 35 Amnistie populaire

Item Information

• Description
  Caricature of Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935) hanging by a noose. Dreyfus, a Jew, and a captain in the French Army was falsely convicted of treason, tortured, and exiled for allegedly selling French military intelligence to the Germans in 1895. In 1906, an appeals court pronounced Dreyfus' innocence and he was re-instated in the army and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

• Item ID
  mdhps010010390
• Source Collection
  Musée des horreurs [serial]
• Publisher
  [Paris] : Impr. G. Lenepveu, [1899-1900]
• Language
  fre
• Provenance
  Posters in Musée des Horreurs were acquired by the Rubenstein Library as a purchase, 2011-2012.
• Date
  1900
• Spatial Coverage
  France
  Paris (France)
• Creator
  Lenepveu, V.
• Extent
  26 x 20 in.
• Title
  No. 35 Amnistie populaire
• Type
  Text
  Image
  caricatures
  cartoons
  political cartoons
  posters
  lithographs
  hand-colored lithographs
• Subject
  Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1936
  Antisemitism--France
  France--Politics and government--1870-1940

• Copyright & Usage
  The materials in this collection are made available for use in research, teaching and private study. Texts and images from this collection may not be used for any commercial purpose without prior permission from Duke University.