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A futile search for the farce version of history.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19980116
Author:Grenier, Richard

France this week is living through a positive orgy of historic self-congratulation, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of world-famous novelist Emile Zola's attack on the French military for having falsely convicted of treason a Jewish army officer. Name? Alfred Dreyfus.

There's a lot of history here. Despondent in London after the crushing of the Paris Commune -in whose red flag Lenin's corpse still lies wrapped in Moscow -Karl Marx wrote a bitter piece called "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon." The original 18th Brumaire (in the French ...

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