Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Storia Contemporanea
Angaben zur Quelle:
26,2 (1995) 227-254; 3: 405-439
Keywords:
Bernanos, Georges,
;
Dreyfus, Alfred,
;
Trials (Treason)
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Discusses French writer Georges Bernanos' book "La grande peur des bien-pensants" (1931), stating that the author's stand on the Dreyfus Affair is obviously based on the "Précis de l'Affaire Dreyfus avec un répertoire analytique" (1924) signed by Henri Dutrait-Crozon - a revisionist history of the Affair. States that Bernanos was influenced by Catholicism's anti-Jewish attitude as well as by the antisemitism of Drumont, Maurras, and the Action Française movement. Bernanos' book denounces the alleged "Jewish conspiracy" aimed at the destruction of the French army and of French national unity for the sake of one Jew. The book echoes accusations against Jews, such as that they are factors of moral disintegration and traitors. also discusses Charles Péguy's polemic with Charles Maurras on the Dreyfus Affair and the Jews (e.g. "Notre Jeunesse"), as well as Bernanos' distancing from Maurras and the Action Française after Munich, 1938, and the fall of France.
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