EdouardDrumont was sued for accusing a parliamentary deputy of having taken a bribe from the prominent Jewish banker Edouard Alphonse de Rothschild to pass a piece of legislation the banker wanted.
Drumont was superstitious and used to carry a mandrake root around with him and attacked Georges Boulanger on the basis of palmistry
Drumont attracted many supporters and was one of the primary sources of anti-semitic ideas that would later be embraced by Nazism.
During the Dreyfus affair, French anti-Semites were rallied to the cause by Pdouard Drumont (1844-1917), the editor of La Libre parole ("The Free Word"), a conservative antiSemitic journal, and the founder of the French Anti-Semitic League.
Drumont's Jewish France, published in 1885, enjoyed immense popularity: at least onehundred andfifty thousand copies were sold within two years ofitsfirst appearance and it remained in print long into the twentieth century.
As the following excerpt from his work demonstrates, Drumont'santi-Semitism took the form of an argument that "old France" was being "conquered" by an alien and parasitic Jewish culture.
EdouardDrumont was perhaps the most notable and virulent of anti-Semites in late 19th century France.
Drumont’santi-Semitism approached psychosis, and his best selling book, “La France Juive,” is two volumes of delirium, attacking the Jews for every ill imaginable.
It was to be expected that a man who in his writings held the Jews responsible for floods would lead the attack on a Jewish officer accused of treason.
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Chamberlain's Die Grundlagen des Neunzehn- tenJahrhunderts (1899) or, for that matter, EdouardDrumont's La France juive (1886); nor in the post-1914 period was there the same kind of vogue for fictional popularizations of...
A century later, the anti-Semiticjournalist and politician EdouardDrumont noted the vehemence of Grgoire's criticism of the Jews in his France juive and then added this comment:...
EdouardDrumont in France, Adolf Stoecker in Germany, Karl Lueger in Vienna.
Rochefort and Drumont proclaimed the existence of a syndicate to free him, published some false information about the rules that the condemned man had to obey, affirmed that with a little money it was the easiest thing imaginable to accomplish his rescue.
He went to Drumont some time before the appearance of Lazare'spamphlet, and said that they desired to reopen the Dreyfus affair, and to involve him in it in order to retard his promotion ("La Libre Parole," Dec. 3, 1902).
Meanwhile, Henry insinuated to General Gonse that it would be well to put the secret dossier (of the Dreyfus case) out of the way, for indiscretions might arise?perhaps had already arisen?because of it (an allusion to the article in "L'Eclair," which he wished to be attributed to Picquart).
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The virulence of the passions aroused by the case was due to the spread of Anti-Semitism in France.
This may have been due partly to the failure of the Union Générale--a Roman Catholic banking establishment which aimed at superseding Jewish finance--in 1885; it also may have been partly due to the publication of EdouardDrumont's book La France Juive in 1886.
He fought a duel, first with Drumont, then with Lamase, under whose name the articles had appeared.
In the 1890s, a Frenchman called EdouardDrumont ran a newspaper full of crude caricatures of Jews and articles that railed against their increasing dominance of French and European life, reaching fever pitch during the treason trial of French officer Alfred Dreyfus.
As the Danish cartoon row spreads and editors hurry to wrap themselves in the mantle of Voltaire, it is worth noting that most of civilised Europe today gladly accepts (and in some cases even legislates to preserve) a taboo on the kinds of free speech that Drumont sought to establish.
He goes on to note that self-censorship in the media is practiced every day, from what photos grace the front pages of our newspapers to which letters-to-the-editor are printed in the back.
More than the courts or the government, it was newspapers that drove the Affair from beginning to end, and some of its major heroes and villains were journalists.
Chief among the villains was EdouardDrumont, editor of the anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole, who whipped up popular fury against the "traitor" Dreyfus.
It was transformed into a symbol of a whole set of values — patriotism, obedience, Catholic piety, hatred of Jews and foreigners — which many Frenchmen proudly and violently embraced.
EdouardDrumont began publishing his anti-Semitic La Libre Parole newspaper, spreading the idea that Jews intended to economically and politically dominate the world.
In 1896, Drumont boasted he had influenced the verdict--which was eventually proved the result of two letters forged by a French anti-Semite.
Bint followed a precedent established by Frenchman EdouardDrumont, a fantastic anti-Semitic fabrication entitled La France Juive, which had been published more than 200 times.
For the antidreyfusards were much more than a marginal band of anti-Semites.
Their leaders included not only the vicious EdouardDrumont and fervent nationalists such as Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras, but also painters Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, and Auguste Renoir, composer Vincent d’Indy, novelist Jules Verne, poet Paul Valéry, the Revue des deux mondes, and the Acadèmie Française.
Maurice Barrès, Paul Claudel, Georges Sorel, Charles Maurras, even EdouardDrumont invited him to do just that.
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For more than twenty years, Michel Winock has been an important scholar of French anti-Semitism.
In two previous books--Edouard Drumont et Cie (1982) and Nationalisme, Antisémitisme, et Fascisme en France (1990)--he has studied the relationship between political attacks on French Jews and opposition to French republicanism.
In his new book, La France et les juifs, Winock seeks to synthesize more than two centuries of thinking about the “Jewish Question” in France.
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Do you know to whom fell the copyright and all the profits from the bookshop sales of La France Juive, EdouardDrumonts monumental indictment of the Accursed Ones?
Married to the granddaughter of Séverine to whom EdouardDrumont entrusted the task of legally protecting his literary uvre as well the rights to the profits from them the Jew Lecache became the owner of these rights on Séverines death.
As a result it was he who, in 1938, gave the publisher Flammarion permission to print La France Juive!
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The excerpts by Johann Fichte and Giuseppe Mazzini provide good examples of German and Italian romantic nationalisms. Discuss the similarities in their thinking. How would Otto von Bismarck critique them?
In the excerpt from The Jewish State, Theodor Herzl “answers” the anti-semitic diatribes of his day, well-represented by EdouardDrumont’s Jewish France. What are Drumont’s chief arguments against Jews? How well does Herzl counter them? (Warning: Drumont’s ideas are extremely offensive, but as historians we must still attempt to deal with them dispassionately and intellectually.)
We will also use these questions as the basis for our class discussion on Thursday, September 21.