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Sat 01 Jan 2010Devil's Island to Guantánamo
Why the Dreyfus Affair MattersBy Louis Begley Yale University Press, 250pp. US$24
‘L’AFFAIRE DREYFUS’, which shook belle époqueParis and split France in two, is a tangled web of conspiracy and cover-up compounded by lies and forgeries, with at its centre an innocent victim, wrongly convicted and cruelly imprisoned on a malarial tropical island under specially modified laws, only to be exonerated a decade later. No wonder it reminds Louis Begley of Guantánamo.
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