So an internal search was conducted. I have but one passion, the search for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. Suggest as a translation of "j'accuse" Copy; DeepL Translator Linguee. Ridiculed by the anti-Dreyfusists as senile (when he was actually gravely ill from cancer), Scheurer-Kestner was soon voted out of office and retired from public life. The expected verdict by unanimous vote of acquittal on 11 January 1898 outraged supporters of the innocent Dreyfus such as Zola, whose “J’accuse” two days later reflected his own indignation. In disbelief, people wondered who Commander Esterhazy’s protectors were. I am not even talking about the way the judges were hand-picked. How many people I know who, faced with the possibility of war, tremble in anguish knowing to what hands we are entrusting our nation’s defense! When used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the y sound, it may be called yod or jod (pronounced / ˈ j ɒ d / or / ˈ j … The crime had been committed and the General Staff could no longer admit to it. All Rights Reserved. The best part of it is that Picquart was himself an anti-Semite. The whole case had been handled as an internal affair, among insiders. Where is that truly strong, judiciously patriotic administration that will dare to clean house and start afresh? I accuse Noble Consort Xi of infidelity, a stain upon the Imperial Palace not even death can atone for. I accuse General Billot of having held in his hands absolute proof of Dreyfus’s innocence and concealing it, thereby making himself guilty of crimes against mankind and justice, as a political expedient and a way for the compromised General Staff to save face. Mercier had him immediately replaced by another expert from the Parisian Police Headquarters, AlphonseBertillon, well known for his up-to-date technique of criminal identification, anthropometry. French for "I accuse;" used especially to condemn a major social injustice. If you found this page by following a link, please go back and update it, or notify the webmaster. You are radiant in the patriotic glory of our country’s alliance with Russia,[7] you are about to preside over the solemn triumph of our World Fair,[8] the jewel that crowns this great century of Labor, Truth, and Liberty. No! As with General Sandherr, his own prejudice, as well as General Sandherr’s during the preliminary investigation, played a fateful part in Dreyfus’ conviction in 1894. A crime! The reason why the General Staff would not show it was that they knew the document was a forgery, among others, done by Major Henry. Their excuse, I repeat, is that the supreme chief had spoken, declaring the previous judgment incontrovertible, holy and above mere mortals. You can complete the translation of [j 'accuse] given by the French-English Collins dictionary with other dictionaries such as: Wikipedia, Lexilogos, Larousse dictionary, Le Robert, Oxford, Grévisse Colonel du Paty de Clam, one with his face visible, the other masked. [37] A man of honor, as he had been all his life, he believed that the truth would speak for itself, especially since it appeared to him plain as day. Although he soon retired, he re-enlisted in World War I. Lt. Col. Picquart was also reinstated in 1906 and promoted to the rank of General. C’est ce que j’ai ressenti lorsque je me suis de plus en plus impliqué dans le cas de Julian Assange, petit à petit, en plongeant de plus en plus profondément dans un monde sombre que je n’aurais jamais cru possible. C'est bien le mail d'accusé réception que j'ai reçu 2-3 jours après avoir envoyé le dossier et à ce jour je n'ai pas eu de nouvelles. We also heard talk of fourteen charges but we found only one, the one about the bordereau, and we learn that even there the handwriting experts could not agree. j'ai envoyer mon dossier le 1er fevrier, il on accuser reception de mon dossier que en mars. The War Office, in order to save face, staged a court-martial for Esterzhazy and then acquitted him of all charges on January 11, 1898. Handwriting samples were compared, as if this were some family affair, a traitor to be sniffed out and expelled from within the War Office. He would occasionally visit his birthplace. Indeed, it is a crime to have relied on the most squalid elements of the press, and to have entrusted Esterhazy's defense to the vermin of Paris, who are now gloating over the defeat of justice and plain truth. I accuse Lt. Col. du Paty de Clam of being the diabolical creator of this miscarriage of justice-- unknowingly, I am willing to believe-- and of defending this sorry deed, over the last three years, by all manner of bizarre and evil machinations. While protecting the privacy of her children, the young woman tirelessly worked for her husband’s retrial. He immediately joined the group of people who were seeking a re-trial. [23] After the Treaty of Versailles, which concluded the Franco Prussian War in 1871, France had been forced to accept numerous humiliating conditions. Léon Daudet was to become one of Zola’s most ardent opponents in the Dreyfus Case. Next General de Boisdeffre, then General Gonse, and finally, General Billot himself were all pulled into the effort to get the Major acquitted, for acknowledging Dreyfus’s innocence would make the War Office collapse under the weight of public contempt. I accuse General de Boisdeffre and General Gonse of complicity in the same crime, the former, no doubt, out of religious prejudice, the latter perhaps out of that esprit de corps that has transformed the War Office into an unassailable holy ark. [20] General Arthur Gonse (1838-1917) Second in command in the General Staff. Mr. Mathieu Dreyfus[31] denounced Major Esterhazy as the real author of the bordereau just as Mr. Scheurer-Kestner[32] was handing over to the Minister of Justice a request for the revision of the trial. His ashes were transferred in 1908 to the Pantheon in Paris. Dare to tell the truth, as I have pledged to tell it, in full, since the normal channels of justice have failed to do so. Like many other people, Zola was at first hardly interested in the story of a traitor convicted by a court martial. Ten days after the verdict which caused a public uproar, a new, more progressive cabinet, with Premier Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau and President Émile Loubet (1838-1929), nullified that judgment and pardoned Capt. Note that, so far, General Billot was in no way compromised. [34] General Georges-Gabriel de Pellieux (1842-1900). The people clamored for the traitor to be publicly stripped of his rank and demanded to see him writhing with remorse on his rock of infamy. Lecture automatique Lorsque cette fonctionnalité est activée, une vidéo issue des suggestions est automatiquement lancée à la suite de la lecture en cours. At the time of “J’accuse,” Zola was working on the concluding novel, Paris (1898), of his new series Les Trois Villes [Lourdes (1894), Rome (1896)], in which he examined socialist, anarchist and anticlerical themes. Translation of 'J'accuse' by Damien Saez from French to English. Nils Melzer, photographié par Yves Bachmann. [10] And now the image of France is sullied by this filth, and History shall record that it was under your presidency that this crime against society was committed. I shall not chronicle these doubts and the subsequent conclusion reached by Mr.Scheurer-Kestner. Fearing for his life when he was sent away to Tunisia in January 1897, Picquart was able to reveal the whole cover-up and the name of the traitor Esterhazy to his lawyer Louis Leblois (1854-1928), during a brief leave in June 1897, asking him to keep the secret. To what end? US Pronunciation; US IPA /ʒəˈkjuːz/ US Pronunciation; US IPA /ʒəˈkjuːz/ Definitions of j'accuse word . Minister of War 1893-1894 in the Casimir-Périer’s cabinet and the two Dupuy’s cabinets (1894; 1894-1895). Yann 21:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC) Touché. Mayer, an Alsatian and a Jew like Dreyfus, whose funeral turned into a patriotic demonstration of national unity and support for the military. He appealed the judgment but, in July, the verdict was reconfirmed with a one-year jail term and a very stiff financial penalty. His express duty was to open an inquiry. Colonel Picquart was sent away on official duty. Discipline means obedience. It should be noted, furthermore, that all of them came from the War Office. The bordereau had already been for some time in the hands of Colonel Sandherr,[15]Head of the Intelligence Office,[16] who has since died of a paralytic stroke. Once that moment passed, it was already too late. The public was astounded; rumors flew of the most horrible acts, the most monstrous deceptions, lies that were an affront to our history. Inspired by the ideals of the Enlightment, it is very similar to the American Declaration of Independence (minus “the pursuit of happiness”). [36] It is a crime to exploit patriotism in the service of hatred, and it is, finally, a crime to ensconce the sword as the modern god, whereas all science is toiling to achieve the coming era of truth and justice. In 1892, in a duel caused by an antisemitic affront, he had killed Cpt. Picquart tried in vain to convince his superiors to admit the judicial error and grant Dreyfus a retrial. A crime! [35] Major Alexandre-Alfred Ravary, the rapporteur for the staged Esterhazy trial, concluded in his pre-trial report stating the Esterhazy case that allegations against Esterhazy were proven irrelevant and that the case should be dismissed. Information was leaked, papers were disappearing, then as they continue to do to this day; and, as the search for the author of the bordereau progressed, little by little, an a priori assumption developed that it could only have come from an officer of the General Staff, and furthermore, an artillery officer. Ah, what a good sweeping out the government of this Republic should give to that Jesuit-lair, as General Billot himself calls it. Inspired by Flaubert, he advocated a scientific and realistic approach to plot and character development. In 1900, his staunch anti-Dreyfusist attitude got him get elected as a nationalist Senator. But, unable to substantiate his allegations because of the secrecy requested by his source Leblois, he failed to raise the interest of his peers. I am being brief, for this is but the abridged version of a story whose sordid pages will some day be written out in full. Colonel Picquart’s investigation. O justice, what horrible despair grips our hearts? Transcription : Keïko J’adore. Is the article J'accuse linked from this page? Among the other Alsatians involved in the Affair were Lt. This was not only a bit of cheap trickery but also the most outrageous fraud imaginable, for almost all of these notorious secrets turned out in fact to be worthless. J’accuse. [1] The newspaper L’Aurore had been founded just three months earlier, in October 1897, by Ernest Vaughan. However, Zola felt genuinely that it was his duty as a human being - and as a Frenchman - to defend the innocent against well-connected bullies, and protect the values, such as Truth, Justice and Liberty, of the country he loved. And, although I have no desire to dwell on a story that is only partly known, Major du Patyde Clam entered on the scene at the first whiff of suspicion of Dreyfus. A crime! we need gas in the car. I realize that you have no power over this case, that you are limited by the Constitution and your entourage. It is a crime to lie to the public, to twist public opinion to insane lengths in the service of the vilest death-dealing machinations. On the other hand, we know that acknowledging Esterhazy’s guilt would be tantamount to proclaiming Dreyfus innocent.” There was no way for them to escape this rationale. But a document concerning national defense that could not be produced without sparking an immediate declaration of war tomorrow? Following “J’accuse,” Senator Ludovic Trarieux (1840-1904), who had been Minister of Justice in the Ribot Cabinet (1895), founded the Ligue francaise pour la Défense des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen, with Director of the Pasteur Institute Edouard Grimaux (1835-1900) and Francis de Pressencé (1853-1914). Transcription. Let them dare, then, to bring me before a court of law and investigate in the full light of day! We still do not know what questions they were asked, but it is certain that not all of them implicated him. [3] Emile Zola (1840-1902) spent his youth in Aix en Provence where he befriended Paul Cezanne. Riff 1 – Intro / Couplet He got sent further and further away until he landed in Tunisia, where they tried eventually to reward his courage with an assignment that would certainly have gotten him massacred, in the very same area where the Marquis de Morès[30] had been killed. For instance, in September 1896, he let the Daily Chronicle spread the false news of an escape in order to keep the memory of the prisoner of Devil’s Island alive. The trial received an enormous amount of publicity in France and abroad.