Ages 13-15 - 14 pages, 4600 words | 35 minutes of reading | © Storyplay'r, , for the 1st publication - all rights reserved
"I repeat it with even more vehement certainty: the truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it."
It was in 1898, in an open letter to the President of the Republic, Félix Faure, that Émile Zola delivered this powerful statement. Let us recall the context: Captain Dreyfus had been accused of spying for Germany, against all reason. Convicted, he stood as living proof of a nauseating climate of antisemitism. It soon became clear that the real culprit was Commandant Esterhazy. But the army refused to admit its mistake..."