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Arthur Meyer, directeur du Gaulois : un patron de presse juif, royaliste et antidreyfusard

Traces the life of Meyer (1844-1924), the Jewish, royalist, anti-Dreyfusard owner and director of the conservative paper "Gaulois", founded in 1868. Pp. 127-184 deal with the difficulties Meyer encountered as a Jew. He fought a duel with Drumont in 1886, having been attacked by Drumont in "La France juive". During the Dreyfus Affair he cultivated the paradox of being a Jew and an anti-Dreyfusard, not sharing the antisemitic views of "Gaulois" readers. Also describes the defamation campaign conducted by the Action Française against Meyer and "Gaulois", viewed as a monarchist competitor, in the years before World War I. Meyer was denounced as a Jew, despite the fact that he had converted to Catholicism in 1901. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
eBook, French, 2002
Imago, Paris, 2002
Biography
1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations
9782849525241, 2849525243
606934048
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010