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169 - [THE DREYFUS AFFAIR] Émile BERGERAT.
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Estimate €100 - €200
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[THE DREYFUS AFFAIR] Émile BERGERAT. Autograph letter signed, dated 2 August 1899, addressed to Mr Huret; 1 page, in-8. In this letter addressed to the journalist Jules Huret, Émile Bergerat, art critic for the Journal Officiel and editor-in-chief of La Vie moderne, expresses his outrage regarding the 1899 Rennes trial: ‘Oh! What a disgrace, my friend, what a disgrace and what a pain it is to live in a time and in a country where such an atrocity as this Rennes trial is possible!’ Also included: Fernand LABORI (1860–1917). Autograph letter signed dated 1 November 1896 and written in Paris; 2 pages, in-8. In this letter, F. Labori, one of Alfred Dreyfus’s defence lawyers at the Rennes trial in 1899, requests a meeting on the recommendation of Émile Faguet. Keywords: Judaica, Jew, Jewish, Hebrew, rabbis, Torah, Hebrew, Hebraica, Judaism, synagogue, Zionism, Passover, Haggadah, Passover, menorah, Hanukkah, Torah, Juden, Israelite, Israel, anti-Semitism, Dreyfus, Megillah, Sephardic, ketubah
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Auction time 07/01/2026 at 2:00 PM
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