France was in torment . Youths marched through the streets of Nantes shouting lethal threats at their neighbors. The Jewish-owned shops of Nancy were invaded and the synagogue besieged. In Paris, anti-Semitic troops marched in the Latin Quarter, on the boulevards and around the Palais de Justice: familiar sights to students of World War II--but this was two generations before, in 1897.
The violence was triggered by the case of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, accused of treason against the state. His trial, exile to Devil's Island and exoneration have been retailed in countless volumes and films; the most celebrated, The Life of...
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