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[Amsterdam}, Arnold de Vita, [1898], brochures 1-14 (complete set), app. 150pp. original softcover paper bindings, portrait of Emile Zola on front, spines gone or suffering, edges frayed, some fronts and backs loose, fronts and backs damaged and torn, original account by Arnold de Vita (1860-1932) of the trial of Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (1840-1902) who tried to help Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) who was a French artillery officer of Jewish ancestry from Alsace whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most polarizing political dramas in modern French history. The incident has gone down in history as the Dreyfus affair, the reverberations from which were felt throughout Europe. It ultimately ended with Dreyfus's complete exoneration. Jean Jaures and Emile Zola amongst others came to his rescue and ultimately succeeded. Arnold de Vita was a journalist from Amsterdam, he wrote about theatre, plays and he was a bohemian. He left Paris after he followed the proceedings against Zola and was shocked by the antisemitism in France. Scarce, according to Worldcat only in six libraries worldwide, not in KB.