Édouard Drumont

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Édouard Adolphe Drumont (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French

Dreyfus Affair
.

Drumont's biographer, Grégoire Kauffmann, places Drumont within the counter-revolutionary tradition of Louis Veuillot, Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet, and anti-modern Catholicism.[2] Socialist leader Jean Jaurès stated that "all the ideas and arguments of Drumont were taken from certain clerical opponents of the French Revolution.[3]

Early life

Drumont was born in Paris in 1844 to a family of porcelain-painters from Lille. His father died when he was seventeen, and had to care for himself and earn his own livelihood from then onwards.[4] He attended high school at Lycée Charlemagne.

Public career

He first worked in government service and at one point became a police spy for

French Academy. He also worked for Louis Veuillot's L'Univers.[6]

Édouard Drumont, collage with the antisemitic newspaper he founded, La Libre Parole of 10 September 1899.[7] The headlines read: "The Traitor Convicted, Ten Years of Detention and Degradation, Down with the Jews!"

Drumont's 1886 book,

Jews in France and argued for their exclusion from society. In 1892, Drumont initiated the newspaper the La Libre Parole which became known for intense antisemitism
. Gaston Méry was soon made editor in chief due to his skill in exploiting scandalous affairs and his daring invective. The newspaper took "France for the French" as its motto.[8] The newspaper was skeptical of
Diana Vaughan hoax before Taxil admitted it in 1897. It was the first paper to publish news of Alfred Dreyfus
's arrest, in an article titled “High Treason: The Jewish Traitor Alfred Dreyfus Arrested” in 1894.

Initially, Drumont was a supporter of

Boniface VIII". In La Libre Parole Drumont's old friend Count Adrien Albert Marie de Mun and Papal Nuncio Cardinal Domenico Ferrata were denounced liked common criminals.[9]

For the French legislative election of May 1898, the antisemitic activist Max Régis endorsed Drumont before this election from Algiers.[10] On 8 May 1898, Édouard Drumont was elected triumphantly with 11,557 votes against 2,328 and 1,741 for his opponents.[11] Of six Algerian national deputies, four were elected on the platform of Regis's Anti-Jewish League.[12] Drumont represented

Édouard Alphonse de Rothschild to pass a piece of legislation the banker wanted.[citation needed
]

Drumont had many devotees.

Dreyfus Affair, in which he was the most strident of Alfred Dreyfus' accusers.[4]

For his anti-Panama articles, Drumont was condemned to three months' imprisonment. In 1893, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the representation of Amiens; the next year he retired to Brussels. The Dreyfus affair helped him to regain popularity, and in 1898, he returned to France and was elected deputy for the first division of Algiers, but was defeated as a candidate for re-election in April–May 1902.[4]

Works

  • Mon vieux Paris (1878)
  • Les Fêtes nationales à Paris (1878)
  • Le Dernier des Trémolin (1879)
  • Papiers inédits du Duc de Saint-Simon (1880)
  • La Mort de Louis XIV (1880)
  • La France juive (
    Jewish France
    , 1886)
  • La France Juive devant l'opinion (1886)
  • La Fin d'un monde : Étude psychologique et sociale (1889)
  • La Dernière Bataille (1890)
  • Le Testament d'un antisémite (1891)
  • Le Secret de Fourmies (1892)
  • De l'or, de la boue, du sang : Du Panama à l'anarchie (1896)
  • Mon vieux Paris. Deuxième série (1897)
  • La Tyrannie maçonnique (1899)
  • Les Juifs contre la France (1899)
  • Les Tréteaux du succès. Figures de bronze ou statues de neige (1900)
  • Les Tréteaux du succès. Les héros et les pitres (1900)
  • Le Peuple juif (1900)
  • Vieux portraits, vieux cadres (1903)
  • Sur le chemin de la vie (1914)

See also

References

  1. ^ Richard S. Levy, Antisemitism: A historical encyclopedia of prejudice and persecution (2005) 1:191
  2. ^ Kauffmann, Grégoire (2008). Édouard Drumont. Perrin. p. 425.
  3. ^ Hay, Malcolm (2005). Europe and the Jews: The Pressure of Christendom on the People of Israel for 1,900 Years. Chicago Review Press.
  4. ^ a b c Deutsch, Gotthard, and A.M. Friedenberg. "DRUMONT, EDOUARD ADOLPHE, JewishEncyclopedia.com (accessed 9 November 2007).
  5. ^ Anderson, Thomas P. (April 1967). "Édouard Drumont and the Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism". The Catholic Historical Review. 53 (1): 29.
  6. ^ Arnoulin, Stephane (1902). M. Edouard Drumont et les Jesuites. Librairie des Deux-Mondes. pp. 73–75.
  7. convicted
    again on 9 September 1899 in Rennes
  8. ^ Seillan, Jean-Marie (2003), "Nord contre Sud. Visages de l'antiméridionalisme dans la littérature française de la fin du XIXe siècle", Loxias (in French), 1, retrieved 13 December 2017
  9. ^ Byrnes, Robert F. (January 1949). "Antisemitism in France before the Dreyfus Affair". Jewish Social Studies. 11 (1): 64-65.
  10. ^ Benbassa 2001, p. 145.
  11. ^ Bouveresse 2008, p. 492.
  12. ^ Zack 2005, p. 594.
  13. ^ Drumont's Jewish disciple Archived 9 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine, 2 June 2008
  14. ISBN 0-15-670153-7
    , pp. 95-99.

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