The Dreyfus Affair and Truth Game (Sceaux, E. Charaire printer)
Date :
1891
Type of image :
Lithographie
Dimensions (HxL cm) :
44.5x60.7 cm
Topic :
Storage Location :
949.0401
Description
A 63-square goose chase, featuring the events of the investigation, the trial and their protagonists. Every four or five squares a naked woman symbolizes the truth, in an unstable position around a well, from which she emerges victorious in the final vignette.
Characters featured: Jean Jaurès; Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy; Fernand Labori; Georges Picquart; Georges Clemenceau; Armand Paty de Clam; Charles Gabriel Edgar Demange; Henri Victor Rochefort-Luçay; Alexandre-Albert Delegorgue; Emile Zola; Auguste Scheurer-Kestner; Gabrielle de Boulancy; Henri-Louis Leblois.
History :
2. The reproduction is not from the Musée de Bretagne, but from the Musée du barreau de Paris.
Technical Data
Notice #024498
Image editing :
Image web
Bibliography :
Hélène Valance, Histoire en jeux, Numéro Illustrer le roman national, 2025