Memory bank, January 13


Emile Zola's letter, which accused the French government of anti-Semitism and a cover-up that resulted in Alfred Dreyfus being convicted of treason and banished to Devil's Island, was published in a Paris newspaper on January 13, 1898. The entire front page was devoted to Zola's stinging indictment. And the uncompromising headline is one of the most famous ever to appear in print.