HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Adolphe Thiers, Kulturkampf, Miscarriage
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Lecture - march 2nd, 2016: fin de si cle. Important figures/names: adolphe thiers, georges boulander, alfred dreyfus. Jean jaures: kulturkampf, wilhelm i, wilhelm ii. It seemed hopeless then that france could ever make a comeback. 1894: incredibly powerful crisis that is still present today the dreyfus affair: at rst seemed to be another military scandal, alfred dreyfus was accused of having sold military secrets to the germans, he was. Jewish but french, from alsace: he was found guilty on the basis of evidence that people realized was tampered and corrupted unjust conviction, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on devil"s island in french guiana. It is a huge example of the miscarriage of justice: dreyfus is a symbol of the conservatism and corruption of the french state which had a huge roman catholic foundation. People however wanted to exonerate him but people who would claim that he was innocent would be seen as traitors.
