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Hunter 2022-01-21 08:02:18
Emile Zola is a real warrior
I saw this film in our "20th Century French Intellectuals" general core seminar. It is really a good film, the editing is very smooth, and the performance is also very good. Of course, I think the biggest highlight is the few speeches, especially the court debates, which are really wonderful. But...
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Nels 2022-01-21 08:02:18
Intellectuals
I watched a fragment of a movie, telling how the French writer Zola did not fear the conflict between justice and order in the Dreyfus incident, protested the unfair judgment of the military court, accused the trial of wrong cases, and performed justice. After Zola wrote "I Accuse" and the...

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Émile Zola: At this solemn moment, in the presence of this tribunal, which is the representative of human justice, before France, before the whole world, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent! By all that I have won, by all that I have written to spread the spirit of France, I swear that he is innocent. May all that melt away; may my name perish if Dreyfus be not innocent. He is innocent.
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Émile Zola: Why didn't Picquart say anything?
Lucie Dreyfus: Colonel Picquart is a good officer. He kept silent at the request of his superiors.
Émile Zola: You mean they KNEW and they ordered him to suppress the truth? Why,that's monstrous!