Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus in the phantasmagoria /

Alfred Dreyfus saw himself caught in a phantasmagoria, a great complex enigma that needed to be solved, but all the clues seemed to be an hallucination, a will-o'-th'-wisp or what George Sand called orblutes. This book examines how Dreyfus and his wife found a powerful new kind of love thr...

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Main Author: Simms, Norman Toby (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781443860765
144386076X
1443860395
9781443860390
9781306858755
1306858755
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:Alfred Dreyfus saw himself caught in a phantasmagoria, a great complex enigma that needed to be solved, but all the clues seemed to be an hallucination, a will-o'-th'-wisp or what George Sand called orblutes. This book examines how Dreyfus and his wife found a powerful new kind of love through Jewish themes at the same time as they were forced to conceal their true identities. To see how Jewish Dreyfus was, the book explores his background in Alsatian culture, in the cosmopolitan Judaism of P ...
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 499 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 492-499).
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