DREYFUS AFFAIRS - Suite of 70 original photographs taken in - Lot 67

DREYFUS AFFAIRS - Suite of 70 original photographs taken in 1899, mounted on 11 cardboard plates, framed with red ink and captioned in pencil. Several of them bear the dry stamp of Samuel Gerschell, a prominent photographer of the time. Others, missed or faded, are not taken into account. (Average condition, many photographs are missing, only the captions remain. Others are faded or faded. Those designated are in decent condition). Iconographic memorial constituted during the second trial of Captain Dreyfus where the main figures linked to the event appear. After Émile Zola's article in L'Aurore ("J'accuse...", 1898), the Cour de Cassation had, on June 3, 1899, annulled the 1894 judgment condemning Dreyfus. On June 9, the prisoner left Devil's Island and was transferred to the military prison in Rennes. It was in this city that the second trial took place and that most of the photographs were executed. On September 9, Dreyfus was again condemned but with extenuating circumstances. Ten days later the President of the Republic, Etienne Loubet, pardoned him. Captain Dreyfus had to wait until 1906 to finally be rehabilitated. - Main names mentioned in the captions: Mr. Labori. Lieutenant-Colonel Picquart. - Captain Dreyfus' lawyers: Mr. Labori, Mr. Demange. - Troop forming a hedge for the passage of Captain Dreyfus. - Captain Dreyfus returning to the prison after a hearing. - Service of order after the exit of Captain Dreyfus from the lycée. - Arrival of Mr. Casimir Périer in Rennes with his relatives and notables. Witnesses and journalists waiting for the opening of the doors of the lycée, rue Toullier, where hearings were held behind closed doors. - Arrival of the secret file in Rennes. General Billot. Colonel Jouaust, General Mercier. Gal de Boisdeffre. General Zurlinden. Colonel Bertin. Gal Gonse. Maurice Barrès. M. Hennion. M. Paléologue. General Chamoin. Mr. Errault. M. Olivi. M. Dureault, prefect of Île & Vilaine and Colonel Jouaust. Mathieu (?) Dreyfus, brother of Captain Dreyfus. Captain Valériau. - The courtyard of the high school during a recess. General Roger. General de St Germain. General Fabre. Major Hartmann. Major Cuignet. Octave Mirbeau and his wife. The clerk Coupois, M. Bertulus. J. Jaurès. M. Cochefort. The white lady. Epilogue: Captain Dreyfus and his children, September 27, 1899.