The following article from the New York Times is about art, artists, and the Dreyfus Affair. It specifically mentions the "Museum of Horrors" cartoons (like the one we examined in class, depicting Alfred Dreyfus as one head of the Jewish hydra). Did you know that Monet supported Dreyfus and Degas used the Affair to turn his back on close Jewish friends?
NEW YORK; In France's Dreyfus Affair, The Artists, Too, Asked, 'Which Side Are You On? - New York Times
On this next web page, read the text, then click on Media and Archives links (right side of page) to see more cartoons, including another Museum of Horrors cartoon showing Dreyfus as an inhuman beast. http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/the-french-and-the-dreyfus-affair/jews-in-france/Anti-semitism-at-the-turn-of-the-century.htm?#m98
The same www.dreyfus.culture.fr site has a wealth of images, letters, and historical writings about the Affair. This next link depicts a board game produced by Dreyfus supporters (known in French as Dreyfusards) which ends with truth emerging from a well.
http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/pedagogie/media-pedago-58-doc-Dreyfusard_board_game.htm
Dreyfusards also created a calendar for 1899 showing Dreyfus' wife, his supporters, images of his prison on Devil's Island, and Justice. "Revision" is the French term that refers to the demand that Dreyfus be given a retrial.
Finally, the website has a section discussing what happened after the Dreyfus Affair, both to Dreyfus himself and to French and European society.
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