HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Dreyfus Affair, Glossary Of Cycling, Revanchism
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Frederick brown on the dreyfus affair: revanchism: move to take back something that you had. Background ideas: when france lost everything and was moving back in history in terms to progress they considered revanchism, 1882: economy failed. Great depression france blamed the economic down turn on. Jewish people: jews had a long history in france to be the one blamed for every downfall growing anti semitsm. Which is painting a hole group as the problem in a recurring situation: 80"s: war minister freycinet, creates a new program which is to take the top students in the military school and groom them to be officers. You would spend some time in each brand of the military and dreyfus was apart of this. With this program came a lot of jelousy and resentment towards the top students. Which means that there was a spy in the french army feeding information to the.