Raspail jean

Original letters to the the later Anti-Dreyfusard Henri Rochefort from François-Vincent Raspail; Aurélien Scholl; Georges Perin ; Alfred Madier-Montjau ; Auguste Vacquerie.

51-4375 — France: 1871-1879. 5 Lettres adressées à Henri ROCHEFORT 1871-1879. François-Vincent Raspail 11 mars 1871. Lettre signée à un rédacteur au sujet de la maladie de Rochefort. Aurélien Scholl 29 août sur l'attitude du Voltaire avant les élections sénatoriales: "J'emboite le pas à Gambetta qui dispose seul de forces suffisantes pour conjurer le péril de la rentrée". Georges Perin 15 janvier 1875; le député s'insurge avec Clemenceau contre "la conduite de ceux qui tous les jours insultent un proscrit qui ne peut leur répondre et éditent contre lui des calomnies". Alfred Madier-Montjau 23 mars 1879 longue lettre de 6 pages du député au sujet des poursuites du Parquet et des persécutions contre le journal La Marseillaise. Auguste Vacquerie 25 avril 1879 il le félicite pour un article et pour son roman L'Évadé en espérant le revoir bientôt à Paris. .Provenance: Bibliothèque Philippe Zoummeroff Crimes et Châtiments. Expertise by Thierry Bodin;Jacques T. Quentin; Benoît Forgeot. .Henri Rochefort the main anti-Dreyfusard polemicist was born in Paris on 31 January 1831.The son of the marquis de Rochefort-Luçay-himself a journalist and playwright-Henri Rochefort became an employee of the city of Paris in 1851. A sub-inspector for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts he resigned to work at Le Figaro before founding his own paper La Lanterne. A deputy from the Seine department in January 1871 he was sentenced to be deported to New Caledonia after the Commune. He escaped in March 1874 and was amnestied in 1880. He then founded L'Intransigeant which denounced-in tens of thousands of copies-"parliamentary filth." Reelected deputy in 1885 he resigned the following year when he failed to obtain a general amnesty. He supported General Boulanger which earned him another conviction from the High Court for "conspiracy against the safety of the State.".He was amnestied in 1895 and joined the ranks of the nationalists and the anti-Dreyfusards accusing Joseph Reinach of having faked the evidence against Esterhazy. On 13 December 1897 L'Intransigeant published the story of a letter from the German emperor naming "Captain Dreyfus throughout." The governmental refutation met with "only incredulity among the enlightened apostles of the nationalist gospel" M. Paléologue.In 1898 as president of a marginal French socialist party Rochefort denounced Jaurès as "a sergeant recruiter in the service of the syndicate of treason." On 18 October he wrote that his dream would be to line up the judges of the Court of Cassation have an executioner cut off their eyelids gouge out their eyes and then place them on a large pillory with a sign reading "This is how France punishes the traitors who sell her to Germany!".His paper denounced the "syndicate" of the Dreyfusards and supported the anti-Dreyfusards who at Rennes nourished the idea that the captain was the incarnation of treason calling the line of soldiers who turned their back on Dreyfus to discourage death threats a "dishonor guard."He saw anti-Dreyfusism as a means to attack bourgeois values and Jewish financiers but refused to write for L'Action Française. The last of his 13000 articles appeared in La Patrie before his death at Aix-les-Bains in the Savoie department on 1 July 1913. France: 1871-1879 unknown