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'J' accusisme' grips France

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From: The Spectator
Date: 19980124
Author:Johnson, Douglas

Douglas Johnson says that, for M. Jospin, the Dreyfus anniversary is a useful distraction from unemployment

Paris

THE French have been enjoying themselves. And, as they know best, they have been enjoying themselves with their history. The 13th of January 1898 has been transformed into one of the great days of the French past. It was then that the newspaper L'Aurore published the `Letter to the President of the Republic', to which Clemenceau had given the title 'J'Accuse'. This headline spread across six columns of the front page, dramatising the long letter in which Emile Zola attacked the ...

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